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Londra, 1874. Margaret Prior, giovane donna di buona famiglia, decide di prestare opera di volontariato nella prigione femminile di Millbanks e portare conforto alle detenute costrette a una vita dietro le sbarre. Tra queste incontra la bellissima e conturbante Selina Dawes, una medium dal volto d'angelo, dotata di poteri soprannaturali. L'attrazione tra le due donne è palpabile, ma a mano a mano che le visite di Margaret alla prigione s'infittiscono, misteriosi eventi le accadono: un lucchetto sparito dalla sua stanza, fiori che appaiono dal nulla, quella donna che sembra sapere tutto di lei e del suo passato e che, soprattutto, sembra innamorata di lei.
Sullo sfondo della Londra vittoriana, un romanzo pieno di potere e di passione, denso di erotismo, ma oscuro e inquietante, dove mystery e atmosfere gotiche si fondono con esito avvincente.
- ISBN: 8850247389
- Casa Editrice: TEA
- Pagine: 414
- Data di uscita: 12-10-2017
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In reading the gothic psychological novel Affinity , it is nearly impossible to shake off an overwhelming feeling of gloom and pervasive dread. Following a failed suicide attempt, a young "lady visitor" named Margaret Prior develops a relationship with an inmate named Selina Dawes in a Victorian wome Leggi tutto
Sarah Waters is one of my favourite authors. I'm savouring each book of hers, she portrays gothic atmosphere perfectly for me, I really enjoyed this! but the pacing could be quicker for my personal taste and I wasn't keen on the ending 😭
I absolutely adored this. Sarah Waters is such an incredible writer and fast becoming one of my favourites. The plotting is brilliant, the themes fascinating, the historical world building spot on, and the charactisation impeccable. Would highly recommend!!
I have said it before, I will say it again. I cannot fathom how Sarah Waters does it, how she can draw the reader into this entirely other world, this other period, time, place, complete immersion. Even something simple like the protagonist Miss Prior's afternoon in The Spiritualists' Reading Room i Leggi tutto
Oh wow, that was so good! I haven’t read Sarah Waters before and I will definitely be reading more. Set in the early 1870s in London, Margaret Prior, recovering from a suicide attempt after the death of her father, starts visiting the female prisoners in Milbank prison and becomes obsessed with one, Leggi tutto
"Sexy, Spooky, Stylish" - that's the blurb on the cover. If I was not a Sarah Waters fan already, I would have picked up the book based on those words. How can you resist a book with that description? After reading the book, I can safely say that those words are an accurate description of Affinity.
I am sad to give a Sarah Water’s book this score. It drew me into the story and I loved how the intrigue grew. The gothic prison enthralled me through the language of Waters’ descriptions. For about 200 pages plus I enjoyed the two stories running parallel and the nods to other literature, especiall Leggi tutto
