num_pages: 352
description: 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 séance she was conducting went horribly awry, leaving an elderly matron dead and a young woman deeply 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.
language: English
title: Affinity
titlecomplete: Affinity
genres: Historical, Historical Fiction, LGBT, Queer, Gothic, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Fiction, Lesbian
ratings_count: 26333
places: London, England
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Literature, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Somerset Maugham Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Ferro-Grumley Award
category: Lesbian Fiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Fiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: このミステリーがすごい！
category: Best Translated Mystery Novel of the Year in Japan
publisher: Riverhead Books