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Sarah Waters has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times - in 2002, 2006 and 2009. Her novels have won the Betty Trask Award and the Somerset Maugham Award and have also been shortlisted for the Orange Prize

Her novels Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith and The Night Watch have all been adapted for television. Sarah Waters has been named Author of the Year four times: by the British Book Awards, the Booksellers’ Association, Waterstone’s Booksellers and the Stonewall Awards. She lives in London, and was awarded an OBE in 2019.

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Reading guide: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

In postwar Warwickshire, a doctor is called to Hundreds Hall, a mansion in decline. As he becomes involved with the Ayres family, he discovers they may be haunted by something far more sinister than a dying way of life

Video highlights

Sarah Waters 'Fingersmith' | World Book Night 2013 | HiBrow

Sarah Waters on 'Fingersmith'

 

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

All nominated books

Fingersmith
Sarah Waters offers an intriguing blend of mystery and suspense, secrets and betrayal in her evocative Victorian underworld page-turner
The Night Watch
Sarah Waters’ engaging fiction about four Londoners whose lives and secrets during and after the Second World War connect in often startling ways
The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters’ chilling and vividly rendered ghost story set in postwar Britain, brimming with rich atmosphere and psychological complexity