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Mixed Feelings

Advantages: Thought-provoking, delightful writing style
Disadvantages: Hard-going, slow-moving

Focusing on an episode in the life of Edward Manners in which he emigrates to a Belgian city (unnamed in the text) to tutor students of English, The Folding Star examines the natures of love, lust and obsession. Marketed as a 'gay novel', the novel's num ...

a9robert 07.06.2008 · Read full review
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Good Read

Advantages: Interestingly diverse
Disadvantages: Heavy going in places

After reading The Swimming Pool Library I thought I would try another by the same author........Although I did not enjoy this one quite as much, non the less it is definitely a good read. It is based around Edward Manners who escapes England to go and li ...

robertedgerton 16.07.2000 · Read full review
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darkly intriguing

Advantages: beautifully descriptive
Disadvantages: incredibly slow paced

...i chose to read this book before the swimming pool library. whilst the folding star is certainly a slow paced book it is laced with side stories of pain & death starkly mirrored by the hopes of youth, the graphic depictions of gay sex may be quite strong ...

mrandys 23.07.2010 · Read full review
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A TASTE OF LESBIAN VICTORIANA

Advantages: Well plotted and written, evocative of the period and the traditional genre
Disadvantages: Three part structure caused the sotry to stall slightly

In writing ‘Fingersmith’ Sarah Waters has not only written a fantastic historical thriller but she has shown her literary skill and knowledge by mimicking the Victorian mystery melodrama genre with great aplomb. The story deals with two young girls bot ...

Mauri 05.07.2007 · Read full review
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A Pearl Of A Novel

Advantages: Fantastic book, I couldn't put it down, amazing story and characters
Disadvantages: None

On starting to read another book by Sarah Waters (The Little Stranger), I decided that it was about time that I got around to reviewing the last book I read by her: Fingersmith. I read this book over the space of only a few days back in September and just ...

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