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The New Sarah Waters
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Virago has concluded a deal with Judith Murray of Greene and Heaton for the extraordinary new Sarah Waters’ novel.

To be published in February 2006, the novel, as yet untitled, marks a departure for Sarah Waters who is justly celebrated for her evocation of the Victorian period in her bestselling Tipping the Velvet, Affinity and Fingersmith.

Says publisher of Virago, Lennie Goodings, ‘This wonderful new novel is set in London in the 1940s, against the backdrop of the Second World War. It is dark, compelling and intimate. Sarah Waters’ fans will be thrilled. It begins in 1947 and moves back through time, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941. Melancholic, tender, tragic and beautiful, it is marvellously realised, capturing the 1940s in ways reminiscent of Graham Greene and Muriel Spark. It is a triumph.’

The new novel is the deeply moving story of three women and their love affairs, and a young man who has been in prison, for what we are not sure. The war has ended but its after-shocks linger. Kay, active during the war, when she drove an ambulance, lived full throttle and tended the passionate love she held for Helen, now seeks relief from aimlessness on nocturnal prowls. Helen works side by side with Viv in a dating agency, but Kay isn't the only one to harbour night-time secrets. Helen and Viv have theirs too. Viv's younger brother, Duncan, is the innocent, but the most mysterious of them all. What exactly did he do during the war?

Spring 2005 sees the television adaptation of Fingersmith, starring Imelda Staunton and Charles Dance on BBC1. A television tie-in of Fingersmith, which has already sold 250,000 copies, will be released to coincide.

Born in Wales, thrice crowned 2003 Author of the Year – by the Booksellers Association, Waterstone's and The British Book Awards – Sarah Waters has won The South Bank Show Award for Literature, Sunday Times Author of the Year, The Somerset Maugham Award and the CWA and was shortlisted for The Man Booker and the Orange. After only 3 novels, she is regarded as one of Britain’s finest.


For more information: Lennie Goodings, Publisher, Virago Press 0207 9118093
Or Susan de Soissons, Publicity Director 0207 911 8069