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Zusatztext Totally immersive with brilliantly drawn characters . . . a page-turning thriller while managing to be a tender love story Informationen zum Autor Sarah Waters was born in Wales. She has won a Betty Trask Award! the Somerset Maugham Award and her books have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. Tipping the Velvet ! Affinity! Fingersmith and The Night Watch have been adapted for television. Sarah Waters has been named Author of the Year four times: by the British Book Awards! the Booksellers' Association! Waterstone's Booksellers and the Stonewall Awards. She lives in London. She was awarded an OBE in 2019. Klappentext The Hachette Essentials series comprises a collection of titles that are regarded as modern classics. A carefully and lovingly curated selection of distinctive, ground-breaking fiction and non-fiction titles published since 1950. Timeless. Relevant. Passionate. Unified as a series - distinctive as books. A good book is great. A great book is essential. 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. Zusammenfassung The Hachette Essentials series comprises a collection of titles that are regarded as modern classics. A carefully and lovingly curated selection of distinctive! ground-breaking fiction and non-fiction titles published since 1950. Timeless. Relevant. Passionate. Unified as a series - distinctive as books. A good book is great. A great book is essential. 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. ...
