Sarah Waters
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Oct 20, 2026
Tiffany TsaoGUEST
And it's actually a retelling or adaptation.
Tiffany TsaoGUEST
It's an adaptation of Sarah Waters' Fingersmith.
Tiffany TsaoGUEST
And so I had watched this movie on the plane.
Tiffany TsaoGUEST
I think I have it, I read somewhere that when you watch things on the plane, because the altitude makes you more porous.
Tiffany TsaoGUEST
everything I watch on the plane, even if it's a crappy movie is really, I'm like, oh, I'm so deeply affected by that.
Tiffany TsaoGUEST
So this deeply affected me because of the perspectival shift that happens.
Tiffany TsaoGUEST
And then I ended up reading Sarah Waters' Fingersmith to see how that compared.
Tiffany TsaoGUEST
And I was, I did like, so you'll see if you, if one is familiar with those two works, they'll see the influence there.
Kate HergottHOST
I need to have read to be a gothic fan.
Kate HergottHOST
I've had so many people tell me to read "Fingersmith" by Sarah Waters.
Kate HergottHOST
Most recently, John Fram told me, um, when I interviewed him for "The Midnight Knock." But, uh, it follows Sue Trinder, an orphan raised among thieves in Victorian London who agrees to help a con man seduce and defraud a wealthy young heiress named Maud Lilly.
Kate HergottHOST
But as Sue and Maud grow closer, a series of betrayals, hidden identities, and shocking reveals or shocking reversals reveal that neither woman fully understands the scheme or the secrets connecting their lives.
Rebecca BirrellGUEST
Oh no, I had a thought.
Rebecca BirrellGUEST
One of them, a writer who I love, who I think is brilliant at evoking a sense of time and place, Miss Sarah Waters, the British writer of historical fiction.
Rebecca BirrellGUEST
She's great.
Rebecca BirrellGUEST
And I think I read something by her recently.
Rebecca BirrellGUEST
And so that was, again, that was very helpful because I think that the other thing that was slightly difficult for me when I was first trying to write the fiction was how to wear all of the historical research that I had done lightly and not feel like you're just shoehorning things in.
Rebecca BirrellGUEST
And you want to have this evocative sense of atmosphere and time and place and But you don't want it to feel overly literal the way that you're using the research that you've done.
Rebecca BirrellGUEST
And I think that Sarah Waters is someone who you really feel the depth and the breadth of her research, but she's not announcing it every other sentence.
Rebecca BirrellGUEST
Sure.
NikkiHOST
And they do a little bit of this, where you get these little moments of breathing.
NikkiHOST
One of the most spooky house things that has ever stuck with me is The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters.
HannahHOST
Mm-hmm.
NikkiHOST
And I think I've mentioned this before, where the person is, um, upstairs in the attic, and they've got the, 'cause it's a very old house, they've got this old kind of telephone system built into the house, where it's not electrical, it's just pipes connecting.
Ríoghnach RobinsonGUEST
It's so funny.
Ríoghnach RobinsonGUEST
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, another con artist novel, but it's also super gay, and it was made into the Park Chan-wook movie, The Handmaiden.
Ríoghnach RobinsonGUEST
Also incredible, but, like, same story, different kind of settings.
Ríoghnach RobinsonGUEST
Vita Nostra, which is a really weird fantasy school book.
Stacey Margaret JonesHOST
All right, so number 90.
Jay RuudHOST
Number 90, The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters.
Stacey Margaret JonesHOST
I want to read that one.
Jay RuudHOST
[laughs]
Jay RuudHOST
Yeah, there's a kind of Gothic mansion in it.
Stacey Margaret JonesHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Jay RuudHOST
Um, it's, uh, by Sarah Waters, who's, uh, well-known in England, but not so much in the US, so, so a lot of our viewers might not know-
Stacey Margaret JonesHOST
Right
SophieHOST
Mine's also pretty, but not on that level.
ChayaHOST
Sarah Waters calls it one of the most influential novels of the 20th century.
ChayaHOST
This is the story, it's so haunting, of a woman consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity.
ChayaHOST
I mean, does that speak to everyone?
Emily BradleyHOST
So just have a look at it.
Emily BradleyHOST
There is Sarah Waters is having an event.
Emily BradleyHOST
The author who wrote Queer Georgians is also going to have an event.
Emily BradleyHOST
So if you're interested in books and queer history and queer stories and authors and just it just sounds like fantastic festival in general.
Theo QuinlivanPANELIST
I also love the name Maude.
Theo QuinlivanPANELIST
If you haven't read Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, do it.
Basil CaplanHOST
There's, there's two things you should do if you're listening to this episode.
Basil CaplanHOST
You should...
Basil CaplanHOST
And you should read Fingersmith by Sarah Waters.
Basil CaplanHOST
[laughs]
Theo QuinlivanPANELIST
In that order.
speaker_0HOST
Swiping a screen doesn't give you the tactile panic of the labyrinth.
speaker_1HOST
Moving to 2009, Sarah Waters tackles the crumbling post-war English class system in The Little Stranger.
speaker_1HOST
It takes place at Hundreds Hall, a decaying estate.
speaker_0HOST
The ghost in this novel might be supernatural, or it might just be the violently destructive manifestation of the narrator's own crushing class resentment.
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