7/2/2023 0 Comments Affinity sarah waters ending![]() An unmarried and unhappy woman from an upper-class family begins visiting the women’s wards at Millbank Prison (a real London jail that used to stand on the grounds now taken up in part by the Tate Britain Art Museum) as a distraction from her grief caused by her father’s passing, an overbearing mother, as well as other pivotal events that will slowly be revealed as the novel progresses. ![]() Set in Victorian England, it is written as an epistolary novel alternating between two timelines and diaries. ![]() That’s not to say that Affinity pales in comparison, or no longer stands well on its own, but I will say that while I did like it well enough while reading, it was definitely the clever, unexpected ending that fully sold it to me-the pay-off comes at the end. “Why do gentlemen’s voices carry so clearly, when women’s are so easily stifled?”Īffinity was Waters’ second novel, and in many ways, it feels almost like a trial run for her third, Fingersmith, which explores some of the same themes, settings, and also (repeatedly) pulls the rug out from under the reader’s feet. ![]() Up until the very end, I thought I knew how it was going to end, but she did it again, and pulled a twist on my smugly complacent ass that I maybe should’ve, but definitely didn’t see coming. This was my fourth book by Waters, the lesbian Charles Dickens, and I thought I had her figured out. ![]()
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