Lately I have had Sarah Waters all around me - and it's awesome! She wrote The Little Stranger, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize. I read it in a couple of days because I could not put it down. In discussing it with CW, who recommended it, I realized that I missed a plot twist! Woo hoo! I love that.
My friend P raved about Fingersmith, which I finally saw and loved (see below).
And I just finished Tipping the Velvet - not as good as the other two, but definitely fun and different. It is a three part mini-series for BBC about the (mis)adventures of a young woman in 1890's England who falls in love with a female singer / male impersonator. When we meet Nan she is about 17, and doesn't even know that falling in love with another female is a thing - that's it's possible or that it happens.
The first episode is way too sappy - for me at least. Rachael Stirling, who plays Nan, is great, but I thought I would turn off the show or use the fast-forward button if the second and third episodes continued to be so syrup-y.
Anyway - they weren't. Nan ends up in London, where she impersonates a boy and starts hooking. Her customers are men looking for blow jobs or hand jobs from a young man. Then she gets into a sadistic relationship with an older, wealthier woman, and that's when things get weird. At this point I was hooked (haha). The end is too sweet again, but this is definitely a find if you like something a bit different, yet still well acted.
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