«Sexy, spooky, stylish, Affinity is a wonderful book»

Guardian

«Refined, repressed and simmering... a delicious tale of Victorian spiritualism»

Mel Steel, Independent on Sunday

«Spooky, spellbinding, exquisitely written... I do believe Waters is on the way to becoming a major literary star»

Val Hennessy

«Beautifully, atmospherically written, this is a tale to thrill your very soul »

Metro

«Waters displays her incredible talent for the Gothic historical novel in this splendid book about a Victorian women's prison and the affair there between an inmate and a lady visitor»

San Francisco Chronicle

«Gothic tale, psychological study, puzzle narrative... superbly suspenseful... This is gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and senses»

Seattle Times

«Unfolds sinuously and ominously... a powerful plot-twister... a truly suspenseful tale of terror; and a piece of elegant, thinly veiled erotica. Like a Ouija board, Affinity offers different messages to different readers, scaring the shrouds off everyone in the process»

USA Today

«A richly detailed exploration of the mysterious affinity that appears to unite two lonely women... Waters has found a superb metaphor for the love that dares not speak its name, and developed it with remarkable ingenuity and power: another stunning performance»

Kirkus

«Affinity is the work of an intense and atmospheric imagination... Sarah Waters is such an interesting writer, a kind of feminist Dickens»

Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Daily Telegraph

«Sarah Waters is such a brilliant writer that her readers would believe anything she told them»

A.N. Wilson, Daily Mail

«Extraordinary... written in a subtly caricatured period style... So well researched is this novel that both diaries seem grotesquely authentic»

The Times