num_pages: 352
description: For alternate cover edition of 9781860496929 click here.Set in and around the women's prison at Milbank in the 1870's, Affinity is an eerie and utterly compelling ghost story, a complex and intriguing literary mystery and a poignant love story with an unexpected twist in the tale. Following the death of her father, Margaret Prior has decided to pursue some 'good work' with the lady criminals of one of London's most notorious gaols. Surrounded by prisoners, murderers and common thieves, Margaret feels herself drawn to one of the prisons more unlikely inmates - the imprisoned spiritualist - Selina Dawes. Sympathetic to the plight of this innocent-seeming girl, Margaret sees herself dispensing guidance and perhaps friendship on her visits, little expecting to find herself dabbling in a twilight world of seances, shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions.
language: English
title: Affinity
titlecomplete: Affinity
genres: Historical, Queer, Gothic, LGBT, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Horror, Lesbian, Mystery, Romance
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: Virago