urn:lcp:affinity00wate:epub:c673310d-5c9f-46c1-80f7-34c8b4fe465b Extramarc The Indiana University Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier affinity00wate Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1gj0kh53 Isbn 9781573221566 Margaret's stark despair and misery really got to me. My heart was breaking for her all throughout. Sarah Waters has an incredible ability to make you care so much for the characters that they almost become real people to you. As for the Spiritualism, ghosts, seances, readings, etcetera, I actually really liked reading these aspects of the novel, appreciating Waters' obvious research into the themes. Sarah Waters: 'Is there a poltergeist within me?' ". The Independent. London. 29 May 2009 . Retrieved 27 July 2012.

Oh wow, that was so good! I haven’t read Sarah Waters before and I will definitely be reading more. Waters however goes the full Gothic both indulging the reader in what might be a supernatural mystery and providing ultimately rational explanations for the strangeness, the explanations stretched my credulity more than the idea of believing in the spirit world, but I believe that is part of the gothic convention too anyhow in for a penny, in for a pound, and the same sex love element puts me in mind of Horace Walpole who is the starting point for the British gothic novel iirc . Daniel, Lucy (30 August 2014). "The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters, review: 'eerie, virtuoso writing' ". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 4 October 2014.

La historia está escrita en forma de diario a dos voces, las de Margaret Prior y Selina Dawes, lo que dota a la novela de un mayor intimismo. Margaret vive bajo el asfixiante techo de su madre, viendo como sus hermanos avanzan en sus vidas, casándose y formado su propio hogar, y ve como la soltería se está convirtiendo en su única opción. El fallecimiento de su padre, al que tenía un apego especial y con el que compartía las mismas aficiones intelectuales, así como la traición amorosa de una amiga, son hechos que siguen atormentándola. De tal modo, Margaret decide convertirse en visitadora, haciendo compañía a las mujeres de la cárcel de Millbank. Será en este duro ambiente donde Margaret conocerá a la misteriosa Selina, una joven médium. Review of "Affinity" ". AfterEllen. Archived from the original on 18 May 2012 . Retrieved 29 May 2012. There is a pleasingly menacing contrast throughout between hard shapes like the prison hexagon, and the confines of rooms, all boxing people in so the main character feels and appears to be as imprisoned in her upper middle class life as the young woman in prison with whom she becomes obsessed, with the few rare tantalising mentions of flow and liquidity, ultimately though the liberty that liquidity offers is a dark one. Her debut work was the Victorian picaresque Tipping the Velvet, published by Virago Press in 1998. The novel took 18 months to write. [17] The book takes its title from Victorian slang for cunnilingus. [8] Waters describes the novel as a "very upbeat [...] kind of a romp". [17]

Margaret, though technically a "free" woman, is still a prisoner - to her gender, to her circumstances and to her mother's wishes. Most people won't find the protagonist likable, but that's not a flaw in the characterization: Margaret Prior is neurotic, depressed, impressionable, obsessive, and vulnerable, but that's what drives the plot; if she weren't all those things, there would be no story. I always find it a rather brave move on an author's part when they choose to write from the perspective of a character that most readers won't be able to identify with, but would probably even look at with some measure of contempt.This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Happy Birthday: Sarah Waters, 46". The Times. 21 July 2012. ISSN 0140-0460 . Retrieved 13 October 2018. This novel made me bawl my eyes out at sleep-over, one time. No joke, I was literally sobbing by the time I got to the end.