Fingersmith
Sarah Waters • 2002
Devastation Rating
love betrayal historical literary fiction
Our Take
Two women in Victorian England are each used as instruments to defraud the other and find themselves falling in love through the deception. Waters' plot mechanics are brilliant but the devastation is emotional — how much has been done to them and how completely they have betrayed each other. Forbidden, elaborate, and absolutely doomed.
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