Fingersmith | SARAH WATERS | KharidobechoBooks

Oliver Twist with a twist... A pulsating, hypnotic suspense novel awash with gloomy Dickensian atmosphere. [1]

London, 1862. Sue Trinder, an orphan raised among a loving family of petty thieves and pickpockets—fingersmiths—under the watchful eye of Mrs. Sucksby, is offered the scam of a lifetime. A charming con man known as "Gentleman" enlists Sue to help him seduce Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman living in a gloomy countryside mansion, to steal her vast inheritance. [1, 2]

Sue must infiltrate the estate as Maud's maid, but as the two girls grow closer, unexpected affection threatens to unravel the entire plot. Nothing and no one is truly as it seems in this brilliant masterpiece of deception, passion, and jaw-dropping narrative reversals. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize, Fingersmith is a gripping historical thriller that serves as the ultimate inspiration for Park Chan-wook’s acclaimed film The Handmaiden