Sarah Waters, 35, was born in Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, United Kingdom. She studied English Literature at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, at the universities of Kent and Lancaster. As a student she lived for two years in Whitstable, the sea-side town—famous for its oysters—in which her first novel, Tipping the Velvet, is partly set. In 1988 she moved to London; her first full-time job was in an independent bookshop; later she worked in public libraries. In 1991 she decided to return to postgraduate study, and she spent the next three years writing a Ph.D. thesis, on lesbian and gay historical fiction. She developed a daily writing routine, and a passion for language and composition. She had articles on gender, sexuality, and history published in various scholarly journals, including Feminist Review, Journal of the History of Sexuality, and Science as Culture.
But while working on her thesis, and becoming increasingly interested in London life of the nineteenth century, Waters began to conceive the historical novel that would become Tipping the Velvet. With the thesis complete, and supporting herself with bits of teaching and part-time library work, she started to write. The novel was finished in just over a year, and was published in the U.K. by Virago (1998) and in the U.S. by Riverhead (1999). The BBC is in the process of adapting the book into a major series with director Andrew Davies, who also directed the BBC’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now.
By 1991, Waters had already begun her second novel, Affinity. This was completed with help from a London Arts Board New London Writers Award, and appeared in the U.K. in 1999 and in the U.S. in 2000. Waters taught for a time for the Open University, a national educational institution offering undergraduate schooling to mature students from a range of social backgrounds. She has also tutored on creative writing programs. She published articles on literature as recently as 1999, but now devotes herself full time to the writing of fiction. Her third novel, Fingersmith, was completed in 2001, and she is currently at work on her next book. She still lives in London, a city she finds endlessly inspiring; but she dreams, too, of returning to a life by the sea.
Sarah Waters made the Granta list for 2003.
After her award-winning trilogy of Victorian novels, Sarah Waters turned to the 1940s and wrote THE NIGHT WATCH, a tender and tragic novel set against the backdrop of wartime Britain. Shortlisted for both the Orange and the Man Booker, it went straight to number one in the bestseller chart. In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become entwined with his. Prepare yourself. From this wonderful writer who continues to astonish us, now comes a chilling ghost story.
莎拉沃特斯的每一本小说都在创造新的惊喜;《小小陌生人》是她的第五本创作,也是迄今为止唯一一本与同性恋题材无关的小说,因为它是献给莎拉父母的作品。烂木头初看介绍以为这是一本和《林先生的孙女》差不多的温馨小册子,谁知到手竟是500+的巨著。我就知道,莎拉出品,必属...
评分二次战后的某年夏天,法拉第医生接到百厦庄园艾氏家族请求,为他们唯一的小女佣贝蒂看病。其实不是真有病痛,只是闹情绪,小小抗议老庄园的暮气阴沉。 四十好几的法拉第医生,父母早年曾在庄园服务,他对百厦庄园和艾氏家族光辉过去仍然历历在目。出于憧憬、于心不忍、...
评分采访_ Sarah Warn 2009年5月10日 (感谢奥威尔帮助修改) 萨拉·沃特斯第一部描写维多利亚时代英国女同性恋的小说《轻舔丝绒》给同性恋和异性恋读者留下了深刻的印象,它与紧随其后的两部作品《半身》和《荆棘之城》合称为“维多利亚三部曲”。在她的第四部小说《守夜》的创...
评分2011年转眼就过去了,真没想到这一年最让我难以释怀的书竟是萨拉·沃特斯的《小小陌生人》。当然这可能跟《唐顿庄园》的热播相关:一战前英国仍森严的等级制度,楼上楼下穿插交错,时代变迁中贵族的衰落和平民的崛起,人心的边角沟坎细节老道,再加上视感美轮美奂的布景道具服...
到底是mystery还是gothic story还是detective story?
评分就觉得bleak house 却完全不如的感觉啊。虽然读起来很顺畅。非常讨厌男主的那种狭隘的科学至上……
评分一个时代的终结总是伴随着无数的殉葬者,他们沉浸在往日的回忆中无力自拔,可是谁又能责怪他们呢?要怪也只能怪命运那双翻云覆雨之手~
评分心之所向,魔之所生
评分这本没标过?几年前的夏天看的,很喜欢,好几个地方看得我汗毛直竖。
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