Sarah Waters : Fingersmith

Sarah Waters burst onto the literary scene at the very end of the last century with her novel 'Tipping the Velvet'

The story centered on the love between two women in Victorian England.

Her next novel Affinity was again set in Victorian times and centres on the spiritualism beliefs of the time.

In this interview Sarah talked to me about her novel Fingersmith.

In Victorian slang what was a Fingersmith? And how did a collector of contempory pornography have a place in the story?