As these examples indicate, Waters was initially As Peter Kurth at Salon magazine averred: ‘This is the lesbian novel we’ve all been waiting for’ Tradition, with Waters’ work compared to that of Jeanette Winterson.

At the same time, Tipping was claimed as the continuation of a lesbian literary It inaugurated a genre all its own: the ‘bawdy lesbian picaresque novel’ ( Steeleġ998). The Velvet attracted gleeful reviews describing it as ‘a sexy and picaresque romp’, and suggesting that Popular Booker contender with the book-buying public’, according to figures garnered from Waterstone’s ( Pauli 2002). October 2002, The Guardian proclaimed Fingersmith ‘the most In the 2009 Booker contest, in the run up to the prize it was outselling all the other longlisted titles by 50 per cent in Three of Waters’ novels – Fingersmith ( 2002), The Night Watch ( 2006) and The Little Stranger ( 2009) – have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, with both Fingersmith and The Night Watch also shortlisted for the Orange Prize.Īlthough The Little Stranger lost out to Wolf Hall The Betty Trask Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Waters’ critical success is evident in her 2003 listing in the prestigious Granta ‘Best of Young British Novelists’ issue and in her impressive haul of prizes (which includes

Literary authors currently working in the United Kingdom, and she enjoys both huge popularity and glowing critical reviews Sarah Waters is one of the most successful and best-regarded

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