Sarah Waters

Books on prize lists

• The Little Stranger

  Written in English

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  Booker 2009 · Shortlist

  The Little Stranger

  The Little Stranger

  Sarah Waters · 43 when first published

  Novel · 501 pages · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:One summer after the Second World War, a Warwickshire country doctor whose mother was once a maid is summoned to Hundreds Hall, the decaying Georgian house where the Ayres family has lived for two centuries.

• The Night Watch

  Written in English

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  Booker 2006 · Shortlist

  The Night Watch

  The Night Watch

  Sarah Waters · 40 when first published

  Novel · 450 pages · War, Love, Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:Four Londoners scarred by the Second World War, among them a former ambulance driver, a woman with a painful secret and a young man with a past, carry their secrets into 1947; the story then runs backwards to 1941.

• Fingersmith

  Written in English

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  Booker 2002 · Shortlist

  Fingersmith

  Fingersmith

  Sarah Waters · 36 when first published

  Novel · 600 pages · Historical, Crime, Love

  AIAI-generated summary:In 1862 London, Sue Trinder, an orphan raised among a family of thieves, agrees to help a con man seduce a naive heiress by becoming her maid, so that the heiress can be locked away in an asylum.