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Sarah Waters

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SundownOnTheStair · 14/11/2022 01:13

Is she ever going to write another book or has she lain down her pen?

Sarah, if you are on here-please hurry along with a new book.

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SundownOnTheStair · 14/11/2022 23:23

I suppose Emma Donaghue might be s similar author but she doesn't sparkle.

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BigCheeseSandwich · 14/11/2022 23:18

“I see people being compared to Sarah Waters and I usually fall for it, only to find that they are a very poor shadow of her.“

same. If you do genuinely have any recommendations though in the SW ballpark I’d love to hear them!

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SundownOnTheStair · 14/11/2022 23:15

It looks like that's that then.
I see people being compared to Sarah Waters and I usually fall for it, only to find that they are a very poor shadow of her.
I wonder what happened to the novel that @DameHelena referred to upthread.

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CrossPurposes · 14/11/2022 18:07

From the end of the article "This is an edited extract from the afterword in the 20th anniversary edition of Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, published by Virago on 17 November." So still no sign of a new book.

CrossPurposes · 14/11/2022 18:05

Spooky timing?

In today's Guardian: www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/14/sarah-waters-fingersmith-lesbian-pornography-diabolical-rip-roaring

TheSausageKingofChicago · 14/11/2022 17:46

Oh the Little Stranger is my favourite! I hope she gets the next one finished

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SundownOnTheStair · 14/11/2022 17:45

CrossPurposes · 14/11/2022 12:05

I thought this was going to say she's got a book out soon. Sob.

Sorry!

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Needhelp101 · 14/11/2022 13:10

I love Sarah Waters. Wonderful writer.

Might reread the Night Watch. The film adaptation is also very good.

CrossPurposes · 14/11/2022 12:05

I thought this was going to say she's got a book out soon. Sob.

DameHelena · 14/11/2022 12:01

The only thing I can find is an inteview from 2018 (!) that says
'She’s two years into a new novel, “a kind of cousin to The Little Stranger, but with working-class people”. She’s creeping up the century into the 1950s, a decade she associates fondly with her parents.'

Nothing since. Wonder if Covid/lockdowns threw her off?

RoyalCorgi · 14/11/2022 09:52

I've also wondered this! She is a superb writer.

TheSausageKingofChicago · 14/11/2022 01:15

I’ve been wondering the same! Currently reading Tipping the Velvet, which isn’t my favourite, but it’s the last one of hers I’ve got to go at.