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	Amazon.com: Fingersmith: Books: Sarah Waters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fingersmith is the third slice of engrossing lesbian Victoriana from Sarah Waters.
		Fingersmith takes the tale of two women, one prosperous, one poor, and then weaves a tale of deception and some of the uglier aspects of human nature into it.
		Fingersmith is the story of a young pickpocket who becomes involved in a scheme to steal the inheritance of a young woman of whom it is said is quite naive.
	www.amazon.com /Fingersmith-Sarah-Waters/dp/1573229725 (2967 words)

	Fingersmith, by Susan Waters, published by Penguin,,
		Fingersmith, in case you are wondering, is the Victorian term for petty thief.
		As part of a complex plan to deceive a young heiress, Sue is sent to a forbidding old mansion in the country, to be maid to the heiress, Maud Lilly, who is kept isolated from the real world by her obsessive and eccentric uncle.
		Fingersmith was shortlisted for the 2002 Orange Prize.
	www.book-club.co.nz /books/13fingersmith.htm (1368 words)

	Enter the Victorian era in the superb 'Fingersmith' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fingersmith is gripping; so suspenseful and twisting is the plot that for the last 250 pages, I read at breakneck speed.
		Strip Fingersmith of its fantastic and foggy atmospherics, its creepily sensual symbolism and its powerfully metaphysical treatment of love and sexuality, and you're left with some dark and perverse matters.
		Poverty, pornography, rank hypocrisy, child maltreatment, physical and mental abuse and torture of women, false imprisonment, involuntary commitment to madhouses and graphic hangings are among the topics (all tastefully explored and researched for historical accuracy).
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/2002/2002-02-28-fingersmith.htm (527 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Reviews \| Fingersmith tickles the palate
		Fingersmith is the story of two young women who fall in love while plotting their share of an old man's fortune.
		Sue, the "fingersmith" or pickpocket, grabs at the chance to make her fortune by encouraging another young woman into marriage and then into a lunatic asylum.
		From the minute a six-year-old Sue is taken to see a stage production of Oliver Twist and sees her friend Flora "putting a hand to a tear in her skirt and bringing out a purse and perfume", the (understated) symbolism does not stop.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/reviews/2305597.stm (541 words)

	ITALICS: review > fingersmith, sarah waters
		Sue Trindle is a “fingersmith,” or trickster, one of many petty thieves in Lant Street, London.
		In fact, the intertextuality between “Fingersmith” and Dickens’ body of work is made more jarring by the reader’s expectations of what a Dickens book should sound like.
		Fingersmith is a novel that becomes more difficult to put down as it progresses.
	www.purplepens.com /inreview/review_fingersmith.htm (617 words)

	Amazon.ca: Fingersmith: Books: Sarah Waters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Her latest novel, FINGERSMITH, beautifully recaptures the can't-put-it-down excitement of her literary forerunner Wilkie Collins, and narrates the story of a group of thieves who engineer a cruel plot to commit an heiress to a madhouse with real aplomb and skill.
		But the novel is even better than that: it brings out into the open social and cultural concerns Collins or Dickens could not have spoken about quite so directly (particularly pornography and same-sex eroticism), and shows great insight into the metafictional issues involved in reworking this subgenre of the sensation novel.
		Fingersmith is full of twists, each more surprising than the other.
	www.amazon.ca /Fingersmith-Sarah-Waters/dp/1844081656 (1204 words)

	MPR Books - "Fingersmith" by Sarah Waters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sucksby's household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves—fingersmiths—for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home.
		Fingersmith is, like Waters' other novels, rich in period detail, depicting the grim slums of 19th-century London, the terrifying depths of a Victorian lunatic aasylum, and the life of the gentry in the English countryside.
		She still lives in London, a city she finds endlessly inspiring; but she dreams, too, of returning to a life by the sea.
	www.mpr.org /books/titles/waters_fingersmith.shtml (480 words)

	Fingersmith (2005) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I love Sarah Waters's Fingersmith, and was worried about the TV adaptation as I'd been disappointed by the BBC's version of Tipping the Velvet (which although beautiful to look at was let down by Keeley Hawes not being able to sing, and Rachael Stirling not being able to act).
		Fingersmith is a very tightly plotted novel with breath taking twists and turns and I wondered if this could be done justice to in just 3 hours.
		The adaptation was excellent, very little cut out, and went along at a cracking pace (although I did wonder whether if you hadn't read the book, would you miss things?).
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0423651 (334 words)

	Fingersmith - Shiny Shelf
		The second instalment of 'Fingersmith' demonstrates that, in fact, a great deal happened in the first, it's just that we the audience weren't aware of this at the time.
		Revelations in the early part of the episode give it the dramatic impetus the first sometimes lacked and this narrative drive is sustained until a second round of - even more improbable yet even more persuasive - plot points which are info-dumped into the drama at its end.
		Interesting and intelligent, albeit a little conservative in its approach to television 'Fingersmith' the TV series is impressively acted throughout and is certainly effective in making you seriously contemplate seeking out the novel on which it is based on the assumption that it will at least be as good and probably rather better.
	www.shinyshelf.co.uk /article/3/st/987 (574 words)

	Fingersmith: Reel Affirmations at Metro Weekly Magazine - Full coverage of DC's lesbian and gay film festival
		Based on Sarah Waters's novel of the same name, Fingersmith tells a profoundly disturbing tale of scheming and betrayals in Victorian England, as a cadre of thieves plots to divest a young aristocrat of her inheritance.
		A burgeoning love interest between one of thieves and the young aristocrat may (or may not) thwart the thieves' plans, but this is only one of many twists that keeps the audience wondering what will happen next, and whether anyone can be saved from a grisly end.
		Fingersmith has clearly benefited from a faithful screenplay by Peter Ransling and a firm guiding hand by director Aisling Walsh.
	www.metroweekly.com /feature/reel_affirmations_2005/?id=75 (386 words)

	Amazon.com: Fingersmith: DVD: Aisling Walsh,Stephanie Middleton,David Troughton,Imelda Staunton,Karen Seacombe,Tallulah ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Elaine Cassidy costars as Maud Lilly, an heiress who, as a young girl, was plucked from the madhouse and raised by her stern, bibliophile uncle (Charles Dance).
		Raised in a den of petty thieves or "fingersmiths," plucky orphan Sue Trinder (Sally Hawkins) agrees to help a conman known as Gentleman (Rupert Evans) defraud and betray wealthy heiress Maud Lilly (Elaine Cassidy).
		Fingersmith was originally broadcast on the BBC and features Oscar®-nominee and BAFTA-winner Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake) and BAFTA-nominee Charles Dance (The Jewel in the Crown).
	www.amazon.com /Fingersmith-Aisling-Walsh/dp/B000A4T804 (1590 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: FingerSmith [2005]: DVD: Sally Hawkins,Elaine Cassidy,Rupert Evans,Charles Dance,Imelda Staunton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A petty thief is instructed to carry out a scam which will defraud a wealthy young lady of her inheritance.
		Susan Trinder was raised by Mrs Sucksby, in a household of fingersmiths (pick-pocketers), in the centre of London.
		When i heard that Fingersmith was being made into a tv programme i was so excited because Sarah Waters is one of the most talented writers alive today.
	www.amazon.co.uk /FingerSmith-Sally-Hawkins/dp/B0009AMA8G (1144 words)

	Three Dollar Bill Cinema: Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
		FINGERSMITH’s Victorian London is far more gritty than any Dickens novel—a wretched, mud-caked city where public hangings are entertainment, smut shops do a brisk business, and fragile souls are committed to torturous insane asylums.
		In a den of thieves, led by the motherly Mrs.
		FINGERSMITH is much more clever than that; it throws in twists and turns in the best mystery/thriller style, before taking the characters on entirely unexpected paths and coming to a shocking conclusion.
	www.seattlequeerfilm.com /05/filmdetails.php?FILM=895 (284 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Fingersmith: Books: Sarah Waters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Although lighter and more melodramatic in tone than its predecessor Affinity, this hypnotic suspense novel is awash with all manner of gloomy Dickensian leitmotifs: pickpockets; orphans; grim prisons; lunatic asylums; "laughing villains" and, of course, "stolen fortunes and girls made out to be mad".
		She has been raised by Mrs Sucksby, a cockney Ma Baker, in a household of fingersmiths (pickpockets), coiners and burglars.
		There are so many twists and turns, This book is never dull because as soon as you know something about the story the plot thickens or twists and the way the parts work are absolutely fantastic.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Fingersmith-Sarah-Waters/dp/1860498833 (1226 words)

	Powell's Books - Fingersmith: A Novel by Sarah Waters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sucksby's household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves — fingersmiths — for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home.
		One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives — Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud's vast inheritance.
		She is a lucid and engaging novelist, producing enjoyable period pieces.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-1573229725-3 (627 words)

	Fingersmith by Sarah Waters - read review
		And so starts Sarah Waters’; third novel, Fingersmith, which was nominated for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize, in 2002.
		The word, fingersmith, was slang for pickpocket or thief during the 1800’s in London, also known as the Victorian era.
		Her third novel Fingersmith was shortlisted for the 2002 Orange Prize and the Booker prize for fiction.
	mostlyfiction.com /contemp/waters.htm (1118 words)

	Fingersmith
		A mini-series from the BBC, FINGERSMITH is an adaptation of a novel from author Sarah Waters, who had her TIPPING THE VELVET brought so memorably to the screen by director Geoffrey Sax.
		The story follows a young girl as she grows up surrounded by a group of fingersmiths, whose devious ways mask their kindness in raising her.
		But when she is embroiled in a scheme to help a con man, she learns what deviancy really is, while also finding herself sexually attracted to another woman.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/fingersmith/about.php (301 words)

	International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award 2002
		There was only one thing, in fact, that had come and got stuck - one thing that had somehow withstood the tremendous pull of that passage - one thing that never had a price put to it.
		But from the moment she draws breath, Sue's fate is linked to that of another orphan growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away.
		She is the author of two previous novels, Tipping the Velvet and Affinity.
	www.impacdublinaward.ie /2004Award/Titles/Waters.htm (262 words)

	AfterEllen.com - Review of the BBC Adaptation of Fingersmith (page 2)
		Compared with Tipping the Velvet, many viewers will find this drama slower-moving and more serious, but also perhaps more faithful to its source.
		Although it is rife with deception and betrayal, it also bristles with energy, and, ultimately, love--which in the end, does conquer all.
		Fingersmith will be released on DVD in the U.S. on September 13, 2005
	www.afterellen.com /TV/2005/4/fingersmith2.html (494 words)

	www.sarahwaters.com :: Fingersmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		There was only one thing, in fact, that had come and got stuck.
		First published in 2003, Sarah's third novel, Fingersmith, opens in London, 1862.
		Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves — fingersmiths — under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her 'family'.
	www.sarahwaters.com /book3.htm (153 words)

	Fingersmith - Movie Info - Moviefone
		Fingersmith - Cast, Crew, Reviews, Plot Summary, Comments, Discussion,...
		So, I really loved the book, Fingersmith, which my partner hadn't read when we picked up this movie.
		Fingersmith - Cast & Crew, movie showtimes, plot, synopsis, exclusive features, trailers, clips, theater listings, reviews, message boards, dvd, videos, rentals and more on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /movie/fingersmith/1282683/main (129 words)

	Fingersmith by Sarah Waters reviewed in AnotherSun by Kate Evans
		Fingersmith by Sarah Waters reviewed in AnotherSun by Kate Evans
		Fingersmith takes us into the underworld of Victorian London.
		It follows the fortunes of two young women, Sue Trinder brought up among the poverty and petty criminals of the Borough, and Maud Lilly, a captive in the luxurious and perverted world of an aristocrat.
	psjk.homestead.com /Fingersmith.html (958 words)

	Fingersmith News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fingersmith News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Taking the penny dreadfuls as her model, Waters grafted tight, character-led narrative on to dank, faintly scandalous descriptions of the Victorian...
		MUMBAI: Fremantle International Distribution has sold the star-studded period drama, Fingersmith, to Viacom's new cable channel, Logo.
	www.topix.net /movies/fingersmith (140 words)

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	Fingersmith by Sarah Waters - read excerpt
		It was only many years later, when I saw Oliver Twist a second time, that I understood that Nancy of course got murdered after all.
		By then, Flora was quite the fingersmith: the Surrey was nothing to her, she was working the West End theatres and halls -- she could go through the crowds like salts.
		From Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, Copyright (c) February 2002, Riverhead books, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc., used by permission.
	mostlyfiction.com /excerpts/fingersmith.htm (3959 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| Fingersmith \| Sarah Waters
		Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways....But no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and surprises.
		The New York Times Book Review has called Sarah Waters a writer of "consummate skill" and The Seattle Times has praised her work as "gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and the senses." Fingersmith marks a major leap forward in this young and brilliant career.
		Sarah Waters, 35, was born in Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, United Kingdom.
	us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/fingersmith.html (1084 words)

	Fingersmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This is a collection of screencaps I made when Fingersmith was first aired on the BBC.
		Please use them to make graphics, icons etc. Please don't take them all and credit them as your own.
		I hope to put up the BBC trailers for download.
	www.cloogle.net /fingersmith (45 words)

	FINGERSMITH - Sarah Waters - Penguin Books
		Fingersmith is gripping; so suspenseful and twisting is the plot that for the last 250 pages, I read at breakneck speed.”—USA Today
		“Waters demonstrates great skill with narrative technicalities, masterfully evoking the antique atmosphere, strict class boundaries and sexual mores of 19th century England… While toying with the conventions of the bodice-ripper, Fingersmith ultimately pulls off a far greater trick, delivering a revisionist romance with enough plot gyrations to keep the pages turning.”—Boston Herald
		Fingersmith is everything a really good historical thriller should be: convincing, engaging and surprising.”—Toronto Star
	www.penguin.ca /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781860498824,00.html (818 words)

	Fingersmith -- book review
		Sue Trinder, a young denizen of back-alley 1860's London, considers herself most fortunate.
		Sucksby, a "baby farmer" who oversees a dilapidated house of "fingersmiths" (pickpockets) and assorted petty criminals, Sue has been trained in the art of graft, illegal but lucrative.
		A dapper con-artist curiously named "Gentleman" appears in the damp and moldy kitchen of the dilapidated house on Lant Street.
	www.curledup.com /fingersm.htm (421 words)

	Overstock.com: Fingersmith : Books
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		Description: Susan Trinder is an orphaned adolescent who is taken in by Grace Sucksby and her band of pickpockets (fingersmiths) in this Dickensian novel.
		A scheme to wrest away by fraud the fortunes of an old book-collector turns into something else entirely when Susan and the innocent girl who is meant to be her dupe become rather more than friends.
	www.overstock.com /sm-fingersmith--pg-proframe_pi-812023_ti-82125.html (335 words)

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