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 Hun...
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.
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...
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.
I feel her, watching. I feel her eyes. They must be her eyes, musn't they? Her gaze is so strong, her eyes are like fingers; they can touch. They can press and pinch. (查看原文)
I looked at the cigarette he had rolled-- which was pretty wretched, the sort of cigarette we had used, as medical students, to call a "coffin nail"-- and decided I wouldn't take his tobacco. (查看原文)
Sarah Waters的新作，意义特别。第五部著作，却是第一部并且“可能是此生唯一一部不含les内容”的小说。嗯，所以献给父母和姐姐，华老师如是说。 简要说来，这个故事的时间地点人物是：Night watch的二战后，Fingersmith的大宅，Affinity的鬼影，以及一帮直人…哈。由于第三人...
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0 有用 七层纱 2018-08-20 09:06:10
我觉得这是一个描述双重人格的故事啊。。。The Ayres一家真是倒了八辈子霉了。
0 有用 春天的复活节兔 2010-08-20 14:01:31
还不错，读到中间真的被吓得只敢白天看。。。
0 有用 丁檀 2016-10-15 12:56:36
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。
0 有用 irisheye 2009-05-16 12:19:45
《远大前程》的翻版。技巧纯熟了，只是。。没有爱了。。
0 有用 穸苑花深无地 2017-08-26 00:57:35
连夜马不停蹄的读完，简直欲罢不能，这是一个充满纠缠氛围阴冷哀伤久久无法释怀的鬼故事，ghost得那么透彻，凄凉，氛围描写非常到位。