Sarah Waters on her Booker Prize Nominated Novel 'Fingersmith' | The Booker Prize

An exclusive video interview with Sarah Waters on her 2002 Man Booker Prize shortlisted book 'Fingersmith'.

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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.

Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.

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[clairek]

amazing. this is my all time favorite book. would love to read sarah waters' archival notes for myself lol

[RyanPetrieWrites]

I love Sarah Waters’ work. As a writer myself she has heavily inspired me with her plots and her style. But she also has an important part in my life and she was one of the first LGBTQ+ writers I read before I came out. “The Paying Guests” was my first outing into Waters territory and I have been hooked ever since. “Fingersmith” is such a fantastic book and one of my favourites of all time. I cannot wait for the next books she brings out.

[Sarah-qkyq]

"THE NOVEL [SHE IS] WRITING NOW" YES I need it

[thecinematicmind]

Anyone who loves this book must see Park Chan Wook’s take of it in his film “The Handmaiden”

[wormrocket]

I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH PLEASE RECREATE THE 2005 MOVIE. AH

[graphomanhu]

(Off topic but important: dear Booker-website-people, please don't forget to incorporate this into the book's page. Thank you!)

[chastineameteshe]

I was interested in Victorian torture devices and like in mediaeval times it is male dominated ways of being tortured which makes witch tortures fanciful.