Shillitoe intervenes and convinces Margaret and her mother to allow Margaret to visit Millbank, the local prison, as a Lady Visitor. After he dies, though, Margaret sees a long, bleak life, caring for her mother. He has promised Margaret a trip to Italy with her close friend (and, it appears, former lover) Helen. A spinster, she worked with her father, a writer and researcher of Renaissance art. Margaret Prior is “ill.” Her father has died and with him, any hope she may have of freedom. (I love the library).Ī splendid example of Gothic literature, Affinity is an exploration of mental illness, spiritualism, confinement, and sexuality. My library didn’t have any, but I filled out a handy little card with Affinity, and lo and behold, they called me last week to let me know they had acquired the book and were holding it for me. Instead, I bought books THAT WERE NOT ON MY COURSE LIST.Īfter seeing The Little Stranger reviews the last couple months, I decided I needed to find more of her work. When I think about it now, I laugh at my naive self – at the time, buying a book for a class I wasn’t taking seemed illicit and dangerous. I was buying books at the campus bookstore, and the book caught my eye because Sarah Waters was my great-grandmother’s name. I first picked up a Sarah Waters novel as an undergraduate.
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