Fingersmith /
"Available for the first time in Canada, arrives the thrilling Dickensian novel from the bestselling author of The Little Stranger and The Paying Guests. Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
McClelland & Stewart,
2019.
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| Edition: | M&S paperback edition. |
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| Summary: | "Available for the first time in Canada, arrives the thrilling Dickensian novel from the bestselling author of The Little Stranger and The Paying Guests. Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby's household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves--fingersmiths--for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home. One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives--Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud's vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be disposed of--passed off as mad, and made to live out the rest of her days in a lunatic asylum. With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways.... But no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals."-- |
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| Item Description: | "Previously published in trade paperback in the United States of America by Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in October 2002. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in February 2002." -- Title page verso. Originally published: London: Virago, 2002. |
| Physical Description: | 582 pages ; 21 cm Issued also in electronic format. |
| ISBN: | 0771063024 9780771063022 |