Author: Sarah Waters
Published: October 2002
Pages: 592
Newborn Sue Trinder was brought up by Mrs. Sucksby as a newborn, and in a household clamorous with fussy babes quieted with mouthfuls of gin and with petty thieves as bedfellows in the London slum. But when the city’s savviest fingersmith—the elegant Gentleman—calls on the orphanage, a proposition for Sue accompanies him: become maid to Maud Lilly—a very naïve and very well off gentlewoman—and ensure her seduction, and the swindler will divide Maud’s vast estate between them. Once they purloin her riches, Maud will be disposed of, shut in an asylum for the mad for the remainder of her days. Wanting only to care for her adopted family as they did for her, Sue accepts. But once in, Sue pities her helpless mark, feeling for Maud Lilly in most unexpected ways...
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