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Sarah Waters


Wales (b.1966)

Sarah Waters was born in Wales in 1966. She has a PhD in English Literature and has taught at the Open University.

Genres: Historical, Horror
 
Novels
   Tipping the Velvet (1998)
   Affinity (1999)
   Fingersmith (2002)
   The Night Watch (2006)
   The Little Stranger (2009)
   The Paying Guests (2014)
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Nuclear Family (2024)
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"Davies writes with a glorious sureness of touch and impeccable comic timing. Nuclear Family is funny, poignant, smart and wonderfully, achingly real."
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Foxash (2023)
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"A wonderfully atmospheric and deeply unsettling novel, full of images so vivid they seem to leap off the page. Worsley's fiction is something to savour."

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Awards
Betty Trask Award Best First Novel nominee (1999) : Tipping the Velvet
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2002) : Fingersmith
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2002) : Fingersmith
Women's Prize For Fiction Best Novel nominee (2002) : Fingersmith
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2006) : The Night Watch
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2006) : The Night Watch
Women's Prize For Fiction Best Novel nominee (2006) : The Night Watch
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2009) : The Little Stranger
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2010) : The Little Stranger
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2015) : The Paying Guests
Women's Prize For Fiction Best Novel nominee (2015) : The Paying Guests


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