Planning to read it and release it...not sure when yet......if you are interested PM me and I will move it up on the pile of books yet to be read.

Divided into three parts, the tale is narrated by two orphaned girls whose lives are inextricably linked. It begins in a grimy thieves kitchen in Borough, South London with 17-year-old orphan Susan Trinder. She has been raised by Mrs Sucksby, a cockney Ma Baker, in a household of fingersmiths (pickpockets), coiners and burglars. One evening Richard "Gentleman" Rivers, a handsome confidence man, arrives. He has an elaborate scheme to defraud Maud Lilly, a wealthy heiress. If Sue will help him she'll get a share of the "shine". Duly installed in the Lillys' country house as Maud's maid, Sue finds that her mistress is virtually a prisoner. Maud's eccentric Uncle Christopher, an obsessive collector of erotica (loosely modelled on Henry Spenser Ashbee) controls every aspect of her life. Slowly a curious intimacy develops between the two girls and as Gentleman's plans take shape, Sue begins to have doubts. The scheme is finally hatched but as Maud commences her narrative it suddenly becomes more than a tad difficult to tell quite who has double-crossed who. Waters' penchant for Byzantine plotting can get a bit exhausting but even at its densest moments--and remember this is smoggy London circa 1862--it remains mesmerising. A damning critique of Victorian moral and sexual hypocrisy, a gripping melodrama and a love story to boot, this book ingeniously reworks some truly classic themes.--Travis Elborough

Promised to SpikesMom in trade for Tales from Watership Down.

I don't know why I waited so long to read this...it was absolutely fantastic!

The book is now travelling up north to fulfil a wish...happy reading!

In the hands of Royal Mail...

Received this week in the post, thanks for sending to me!

This was a really good book. I remember the BBC adaptation a few years ago, so I knew all the surprises, but it was still a very good read.

Have offered it to someone as a RABCK, will either pass it on to them, or if they don't respond then it'll be released in the wild.

This was offered as a RABCK, and accepted, sorry it's taken so long to get round to posting it!

Posting off as a RABCK, hope it travels well and arrives safely.

Thank you so much for this book. I really enjoy Sarah Waters.