This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A superb 1922 love affair welded to a courtroom procedural that nobody who has read it defends — the best first half Sarah Waters has written, followed by the section … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: The bleakest and most tightly built of Sarah Waters’s Victorian novels — a prison-visiting spiritualist ghost story that turns out to be a con — undercut for romance readers by … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A backwards-told wartime London novel with the most convincing butch protagonist in Sarah Waters’s catalogue, undercut for romance readers by a structure that shows you every ending before it shows … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: The most ingeniously plotted sapphic novel in English and a genuine landmark of Victorian pastiche, held back by a middle section that retells what you have already read. Best for: … Read more