Susan's routine soon includes sleeping in Maud's bed. Posing as a lady's maid, a position for which she is utterly unqualified, Susan arrives at the desolate manor and soon begins to suffer qualms over cheating the vulnerable, friendless Maud, who suffers from nightmares.
They meet when a charming thief lures Susan into a scheme to persuade Maud to marry him so he can abscond with her inheritance. Maud, an heiress, lives in the isolated, run-down country manor of a coldly eccentric uncle who requires her to assist him in the obsessive cataloging of his library. Susan, trained as a "fingersmith" - a pickpocket - by an indulgent surrogate mother, has been raised in a household in the London slums which traffics in stolen goods and orphaned infants.
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.Set in the early 1860s, Fingersmith is an atmospheric Gothic novel about two young women. 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 the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud's vast inheritance. Sucksby's household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts 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.
A pulsating story."- The New York Times Book Review Don't miss The Handmaiden, a film adaptation of Fingersmith, directed by Park Chan-wook and starring Kim Tae-Ri. "Oliver Twist with a twist.Waters spins an absorbing tale that withholds as much as it discloses.
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