Affinity - Sarah Waters

"Her quiet voice, that only I can hear, is the most frightening voice of them all."

That voice is the narrative you encounter from the two key characters, but mostly from the protagonist - Margaret Prior who carries you through the spooky and spelling biding journey.

Margaret takes us from her own Victorian upbringing with its traditional Victorian values, that of marriage and presentably. And plunges us into the gaols of Millbank prison. As she doesn't fit in with her mothers accustoms, is frequently becoming referred to as a spinster, and is despising the life she has, a life full of loss and grief. It is felt she visits the women at Millbank "to look on women more wretched than herself." And it is a particular woman whom resembles a saint or angel, one by the name of Selina Dawes, who encourages Margaret to dispose of her idle life, and resume it somewhere else. But at what cost?