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Fingersmith

CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award, 2002

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781860498831

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A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK (BOOKER PRIZE GEMS)

The book that inspired Park Chan-wook’s astonishing film The Handmaiden.

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize

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 miles away.

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Totally immersive with brilliantly drawn characters . . . a page-turning thriller while managing to be a tender love story
Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt