02113cam a2200409 i 4500 1264630084 TxAuBib 20240502120000.0 991217s2000||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 99087554 9781573221566 alk. paper 1573221562 alk. paper (OCoLC)43114307 TxAuBib rda Waters, Sarah, 1966-, author. Affinity / Sarah Waters. 1st American edition. New York : Riverhead Books, 2000. 351 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Arden Eversmeyer Collection. "An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women's ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London's grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank's murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by one apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. Selina was imprisoned after a seance she was conducting went horribly awry, leaving an elderly matron dead and a young woman profoundly disturbed. Although initially skeptical of Selina's gifts, Margaret is soon drawn into a twilight world of ghosts and shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions, until she is at last driven to concoct a desperate plot to secure Selina's freedom, and her own."--Jacket. 20240502. Millbank Penitentiary (London, England) Fiction. Women prisoners Fiction. Spiritualists Fiction. Welsh fiction 20th century. Ghost stories. English fiction 20th century. London (England) Fiction. Psychological fiction. Gothic fiction. lcgft Historical fiction. fast TXWIT