Fingersmith

First edition. Thick 8vo. Pp. [viii], 548. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in red foil to spine; grey endpapers. Jacket cover photography by Jeff Cottenden (priced £15.99 on front flap). With integral red ribbon page-marker and the original wraparound band.

Signed by Waters to title page.

Author's third novel. Winner of the 2002 CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger. Shortlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction. Historical novel about a young orphan girl growing up in a den of thieves in 1860's London, who is forced to act as the linchpin in the seduction and dispossession of an heiress. A two-part BBC TV adaptation, directed by Aisling Walsh, and starring Sally Hawkins, Imelda Staunton, and Rupert Evans was broadcast in 2005. A big screen adaptation set in 1930's colonial Korea, had its premiere at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival under the helmsmanship of director Park Chan-wook.

"[A] drippingly atmospheric thriller, a smart study of innocence and experience, and a sensuous lesbian love story – with a plot twist to make the reader gasp." –The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, The Guardian