No lesbians in new Sarah Waters novel
January 5th, 2009
Sarah Water’s latest novel, ‘The Little Stranger’, will be the first to have no lesbian characters, the author has revealed.
In an interview in The Times, Waters explained the absence of a lesbian storyline “[was] just the way the story turned out”.
Sarah Waters’ previous four novels - Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith, Affinity and The Night Watch - have all had historical settings and involved lesbian characters.
The TV adaption of Affinity was shown on ITV over the Christmas period, and is now available to buy on DVD
The Little Stranger will be a ghost story set in the 1940s, and is due to be published in June 2009.
Despite the heterosexual nature of The Little Stranger, Waters has not abandoned lesbian themes completely, promising “The book after the next one, I’ll come back to a lesbian story.”
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totally not gonna be worth the read surely?!
kat ∼ January 6th, 2009 10:27 ami wont be reading this one. lol
A ∼ April 14th, 2009 1:20 am