Affinity

An upper-class woman, recovering from a suicide attempt, visits the women's ward of Millbank prison as part of her rehabilitation. There she meets Selina, an enigmatic spiritualist-and becomes drawn into a twilight world of ghosts and shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions, until she is at last driven to concoct a desperate plot to secure Selina's freedom, and her own. ...

An upper-class woman, recovering from a suicide attempt, visits the women's ward of Millbank prison as part of her rehabilitation. There she meets Selina, an enigmatic spiritualist-and becomes drawn into a twilight world of ghosts and shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions, until she is at last driven to concoct a desperate plot to secure Selina's freedom, and her own. "Unfolds sinuously and ominously...a powerful plot-twister. The book is multidimensional: a naturalistic look at Victorian society; a truly suspenseful tale of terror; and a piece of elegant, thinly veiled erotica." ("USA Today") "Gothic tale, psychological study, puzzle narrative-Sarah Waters' second novel is all of these wrapped into one, served up to superbly suspenseful and hypnotic effect." ("The Seattle Times")

薩拉·沃特斯 | 1966年出生于英國威爾士，文學(xué)博士。

三度入圍“布克獎(jiǎng)”，兩度入圍“萊思紀(jì)念獎(jiǎng)”。

曾獲“貝蒂·特拉斯克文學(xué)獎(jiǎng)”、“毛姆文學(xué)獎(jiǎng)”。

被《星期日泰晤士報(bào)》評(píng)為“年度青年作家”（2000）、文學(xué)雜志《格蘭塔》選為“20位當(dāng)代最好的青年英語作家”之一（2003）、“英國圖書獎(jiǎng)”評(píng)為“年度作家”（2003）等，文學(xué)評(píng)論界稱其為“當(dāng)今活著的英語作家中最會(huì)講故事的作家”。