Fingersmith

Author: Sarah Waters Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize. Filmed for the television and the inspiration for The Handmaiden London 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths - under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her 'family'. But from the moment she draws breath, Sue's fate is linked to that of another orphan growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many...Read more