There are many startling examples of well-crafted prose in this book that I cannot share for fear of compromising the plot. ‘You are a man,’ ‘Men’s truths are different from ladies’. “‘You are a lady,’ he says softly, ‘and young, and handsome.- I don’t speak from gallantry now, you know that. How purely the author gets to the heart of the matter! Listen to this exchange between Richard Rivers and Maud:
Scene from London in the 1860s by photographer James Hedderly Similarly, life at Maud’s country estate is so well limned you acquire a sense of what a wealthier existence could entail down to smoke and ashes from “the sputtering fire in the vast old grate.” The author’s prose is so evocative of 1862 London, with its crowded streets and its poverty and perverts and picaresque rogues, that it will come alive for you and suck you down into its dark interiors. But let me tell you that you will not be bored at any point in this 511-page book. Sucksby is delighted by the plan, and helps convince Sue it will make them all happy if Sue would agree.Īnd now I can say no more about the plot. Then Gentleman and Sue would deposit Maud into a mental asylum and make off with the money. If Sue would come to the house as Maud’s maid, she could help Gentleman con Maud into eloping with him. Gentleman, 27 and debonair if only in a faux way, has heard of a girl Sue’s age, Maud Lilly, out in the country west of London, who is to come into great wealth once she marries. One dark December night Richard Rivers arrives (he is known to the household as “Gentleman”) with a proposal for a get-rich scheme. Sucksby to keep Sue for a month, here she still was, seventeen years later. Sucksby told Sue that her mother had been hanged for killing a man, and although the woman only paid Mrs.
Ibbs, who run a house in a dark and dirty section of Victorian London dedicated to petty thievery (fingersmithing) and scams.
Sue Strinder is a seventeen-year-old orphan raised by Mrs. This will give you an idea of the roller coaster ride that is Fingersmith. Imagine seeing the movie “Sixth Sense,” and then seeing several more like it right afterwards, and each time, never having any idea of how it would turn out. This book has more twists and turns than Lombard Street in San Francisco!
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