Author
Sarah Waters
Birth Date
July 21, 1966
(59 Years)
Associated Country
United Kingdom
Sarah Waters is a British novelist acclaimed for her richly detailed historical fiction, particularly novels set in the Victorian era and the early twentieth century. Born in Wales, she studied English literature and later completed postgraduate research focused on lesbian and gay historical fiction. Her academic background has played a significant role in shaping the themes and settings of her work.
Waters is known for combining meticulous historical research with compelling storytelling, creating novels that explore issues of class, gender, sexuality, and identity. Her fiction often centers on characters whose lives unfold on the margins of society, blending elements of romance, mystery, suspense, and social history. Her ability to recreate historical settings while examining contemporary themes has earned her widespread critical acclaim.
Over the course of her career, Waters has received numerous literary awards and nominations, and several of her novels have been adapted for television and film. She is widely regarded as one of the leading writers of historical fiction, celebrated for bringing overlooked voices and experiences to life with depth, insight, and empathy.
Waters is known for combining meticulous historical research with compelling storytelling, creating novels that explore issues of class, gender, sexuality, and identity. Her fiction often centers on characters whose lives unfold on the margins of society, blending elements of romance, mystery, suspense, and social history. Her ability to recreate historical settings while examining contemporary themes has earned her widespread critical acclaim.
Over the course of her career, Waters has received numerous literary awards and nominations, and several of her novels have been adapted for television and film. She is widely regarded as one of the leading writers of historical fiction, celebrated for bringing overlooked voices and experiences to life with depth, insight, and empathy.
Books
The Paying Guests 2014
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa—a large, silent house now...
The Little Stranger 2009
One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country physician, is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds...
The Night Watch 2006
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...
Fingersmith 2002
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy...
Affinity 2002
Margaret Prior, an upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity...
Tipping the Velvet 2000
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...