Fingersmith pages7/4/2023 Her “family” is a group of other thieves and fencers (i.e., people who quickly sell stolen goods) whom she assists and who have looked out for her all her life. Sue, who is illiterate, has no hope of a life beyond what she has living in the slums of London but seems ok with that. Both girls find themselves limited and imprisoned by their sex and their circumstances. The story is told in three parts: two from point of view of Sue Trinder, a 17-year-old orphan and fingersmith (thief), and one from point of view of 17-year-old Maud Lilly, who is an orphan and an heiress. Like a Dickens novel, it features thieves, asylums, poor, rich and table turning, but this work also focuses on women, sex, matters of power/agency and the lack thereof. Fingersmith is award winning historical fiction set in 1862 London and at a country manor known as Briar.
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