Affinity
by Sarah WatersAvailable
An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women's ward of London's Millbank prison as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Margaret finds...
An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women's ward of London's Millbank prison as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Margaret finds...
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby. Mrs. Sucksby's household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves -...
One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, a country physician, is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian...
Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages...
Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch tells the story of four...
“Superb, bewitching…Forget about Fifty Shades of Grey; this novel is one of the most sensual you will ever read, and all without sacrificing either good taste or a "G" rating” – NPR “One of...