Waters runs deep: best-selling lesbian author Sarah Waters returns with a moody tale of World War II.(BOOKS)(Interview)

Publication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)

Publication Date: 28-MAR-06

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After completing her Ph.D. thesis on lesbian and gay historical fiction, Sarah Waters decided to try writing a novel, though she had "no long-term ambitions to be a writer." The result--the enormously entertaining lesbian yarn Tipping the Velvet--was such a hit that it was later adapted into a BBC miniseries, one of the few mainstream TV projects ever to foreground the adventures of a sympathetic lesbian character. The BBC also filmed Waters's third novel, Fingersmith, an intricately plotted tale of lesbian passion and suspense, for which Granta named her one of the best young British...

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