Sarah Waters
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It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.
4) Fingersmith
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Sue Trinder, an orphan raised in a household of thieves, agrees to participate in a scheme cooked up by her mother and a scoundrel known as the Gentleman to cheat naive country gentlewoman Maud Lilly out of her fortune, but everything starts to go wrong when Sue finds herself falling in love with Maud, who, if things go as planned, is headed for an insane asylum.
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The story of Dr. Faraday, the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. During the long hot summer of 1948, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. But it is now in decline and its inhabitants, a mother, son, and daughter, are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely the family's story is...