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I thought Sarah Waters deserved her own thread.

Sarah Waters writes mostly historical fiction, and everything of hers I've read involved lesbians.

Femmeslash for booklovers. Yay!

Her web site: http://www.sarahwaters.com/

Of her books, two have been made into BBC miniseries. I've seen the Fingersmith one, but not Tipping the Velvet.

Discuss:
-Why you like or don't like Sarah Waters.
-Your favorite Sarah Waters book, and why you like it.
-How you found out about Sarah Waters.
-Favorite characters/couples/whatever.
-The TV versions that already exist, and who you'd like to see play characters in the books that HAVEN'T been made into movies.
-Anything else that relates.

My favorite is probably Tipping the Velvet, although this is only really because I haven't read Affinity or Night Watch yet, and I thought that Fingersmith got a bit tedious in some parts.

I discovered Sarah Waters when I was visiting my aunt. She had it lying around, and she told me that she's stopped reading it, but couldn't remember why. I picked it up and read it.

This particular edition had no mention of homosexuality in the summary, so I was pleasantly surprised.

I love Gentleman in Fingersmith, even though he's evil. I really like the version of him in the BBC series, because he is pretty. I also really liked Maude, because she is cool.

She's English, and I don't know how much exposure she has had in the US, so that might be why. She's pretty well known in the UK though, because the BBC serialised both Tipping The Velvet and Fingersmith- I love the BBC! (I may still be on a The Line of Beauty high from last night)
I love Sarah Waters, she is in my top four favourite authors, though I do find it a bit odd that my mum has read most of her books, still, with them being serialised I can't pretend they aren't about lesbains anyway.
I think my favourite is Tipping the Velvet, but it might not be, each time I reread on of her books I think 'no, this one is my favourite', apart from Affininty, which is good but far too depressing.

I know I already mentioned that I did not like Fingersmith very much, but I'm going to look up Tipping the Velvet and maybe I'll see if I can get it from the library. heart Thanks for the heads-up on this author, by the way.

Yay @ her for being an amazing writer. :'D <3

I've heard of her but her books doesn't seem all that great. I might read one over the summer, but she's gotten bad reviews for the books.

I've read loads of great reviews of her work- she was nominated for a Booker Prize and Night Watch is nominated for an Orange Award for Fiction too.

Sorry, I ddn't meant to sound too defensive, but she is one of my four favourite authors, I can't help being passionate about her work!

I agree about Nan's voice. I saw it last night (Netflix is love) and it bothered me a lot. The actress who plays her is SEXY.

Is it just me or did Flo and Zena look kind of similar?

Annie is one of the most awesome minor characters EVER. I loved her in the book and she was very cool in the BBC series.

I also liked the friend of Diana Lethaby's. She was the old one who was always dragging Dickie around. She was funny.

The series was okay, but it had some faults. I thought it was a little bit slow in the beginning and I didn't like what they did to Flo's character. In the book, Flo was the one who knew all the lesbians. She was the one who told Nan what "tipping the velvet" meant, not the other way around.

At least I think so. I could be wrong. It's been a while since I read the book.