Affinity

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It is almost impossible to say anything about the plot of Affinity without spoiling something, so I'll refrain from recapping. Affinity is similar to The Little Stranger, in that there are such evocative, spine-chilling moments (including a particularly vivid one involving dripping wax and a dimpled baby's arm :-O ) that I literally had to put the book down and step away from it. But this isn’t Nicholas Sparks — this is a Victorian lesbian dark paranormal anguish-filled melodrama, and it wants you to be sad.

A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. It was satisfying in the end, realising just what should go where; but a lot of the time it felt like a wrestling match.The two seem to be oddly attracted to one another, the nature of their meetings becoming increasingly intimate (on the emotional level, you pervs. I know all its depths and textures - darkness like velvet, darkness like felt, darkness bristling as coir or prison wool. I think, in all of London, there is no-one and nothing so weary as I—unless perhaps the river, which flows beneath the frigid sky, through its accustomed courses, to the sea. There was a respectful 2011 BBC version of her fourth novel The Night Watch, and of course Andrew Davies’s “absolutely filthy” 2002 adaptation of her first novel, Tipping the Velvet, which made lesbian sex as much a feature of TV period drama as the Austen ball. Adding the element of spiritualism is the twist, and you’ll also find a few other twists along the way.

She's drawn towards one particular prisoner, Selina Dawes, a spiritualist and a psychic medium, who has been imprisoned for assaulting one of her clients. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy. And while, admittedly, I never came to feel terribly attached to and moved by Margaret and her plight - she was a little too detached, and her fate a little too obviously signposted - she was undoubtedly a well-drawn character.Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith and The Night Watch have all been adapted for television, The Little Stranger was adapted as a film by Lenny Abrahamson, and Fingersmith inspired Park Chan-wook's film, The Handmaiden. Rivers, but it becomes obvious that this meeting of lips, this 'curious, wanting thing', runs beyond monetary scams.