![]() ![]() Fingersmith in particular stood out as the most well recommended, but I was a bit put off by it being so long. ![]() I’ve long wanted to read a Sarah Waters book, particularly one of her first few books, as I‘be heard those are her best. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways, but no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals. With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be disposed of-passed off as mad, and made to live out the rest of her days in a lunatic asylum. One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives-Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: if she wins a position as a maid to Maud Lilly, a naive gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, they will all share Maud’s vast inheritance. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also holds a transient family of petty thieves-fingersmiths-for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home. Sucksby, a “baby farmer,” who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. ![]()
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