Fingersmith
Author: Sarah Waters
Librarian Note: Find an alternate cover edition (white gloves) with the same ISBN HERE. No one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals. Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a “baby farmer.” Mrs. Sucksby’s household also hosts a transient family of petty thieves–fingersmiths–for whom this house in th….Read More
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