"Marvellous--warm and hot and tender and terrible." "--National Post""Waters is so confident--and, line by line, her writing so beautiful, precise and polished - that she sweeps all before her. . . . [I was] helplessly pulled along by the magnetic storytelling. Twice in the last few pages I shouted aloud - though whether in joy or horror I will not tell you. Sarah Waters skilfully keeps you guessing to the end."" --The Guardian ""One of the year's most suspenseful novels...a love affair, a shocking murder, and a flawless ending."" --Entertainment Weekly ""Both a beautifully delineated love story and a darkly suspenseful psychological novel. . . . The reader is in for a seriously heart-pounding roller-coaster ride." "--Washington Post"

SARAH WATERS was born in Wales in 1966 and lives in London. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature and has lectured for the Open University. Waters is the author of five previous novels. "Tipping The Velvet" won the Betty Trask Award and "Affinity" won the Somerset Maugham Award and the "Sunday Times" Young Writer of the Year Award. "Fingersmith" was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize, and won the CWA Historical Dagger prize before earning Waters three 2003 Author of the Year awards. "The Night Watch" was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. "The Little Stranger" was published to rave reviews around the world, was an immediate bestseller in Canada and the UK, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Visit her at www.sarahwaters.com.