![]() ![]() I gather that in those days, fifteen thousand pounds is like maybe five hundred thousand pounds these days, by the way everyone talks of it like they will be able to live richly and idly for the rest of their lives. She keeps Sue though, and raises her until she is 17 when Gentleman, who is basically some random guy (rather ironically named) who comes and stays with Mrs Sucksby sometimes for reasons which are not wholly understood by me, comes to Sue with a plan! There is a woman living secluded away with her mad uncle, who is due to inherit a fortune when she marries, of fifteen thousand pounds. She takes in babies of women who don’t want them, can’t keep them or who have died and raises them until she can find new homes for them – people wanting servants, or maybe simply wanting to adopt their own child. 548 pages.īut they are such an easily read 548 pages! It is a story set in London, in the 1860’s, of Sue Trinder, an orphan whose mother was hanged for being a ‘murderess’ and brought up by Mrs Sucksby, a London woman who “farms orphans”. ![]() Make no mistake, Fingersmith is quite a brick. So I grabbed it and it sat in a corner of my living room for a couple of weeks and I renewed it online before I finally picked it up yesterday and tackled it. So everyone on the internet has read Fingersmith so when I saw it sitting innocently on the shelves of the library, the name kicked out a memory that I had read lots of really good things about it. ![]()
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