Sarah Waters
29th June 2015
A lot of my blogs tend to be around the products we sell but this time I have decided to blog about something a bit different, my favourite author Sarah Waters. I could literally write for hours and hours on why I feel so strongly about this topic but I will be kind and keep it to a bare minimum, as my writing skills unfortunately are not up to scratch compared to Sarah Waters
http://www.stonewall.org.uk/media/current_releases/3535.asp
I absolutely love reading books more than anything else and ever since my sister bought me a copy of Fingersmith for Christmas over 10 years ago, I have been a huge fan of Sarah Waters.
All of her books offer something different and are perfect escapism from the outside world. I have read and reread all of Waters collection and enjoyed every novel but my favourite would have to be The Night Watch.
The Night Watch is one of those rare books that you both really never want to end but are also glad in a way when it does reach the climax. Such a raw, emotive book it completely captivates you to the point where you want the book to continue, so you can stay involved with the character’s lives. I also say that it is a book that at times you want to end. I say this as a complement to Waters’ writing skills as the plot is so engrossing and all-consuming that it almost becomes like the characters are real and as the novel has such a strong base tone of loss, it is almost a relief to finish.
Many different factors make me admire the novels of Waters with a dominant factor being the way she develops her characters. With no other author’s novels am I able to form such strong opinions on the portrayed characters. With one of the main characters in The Night Watch, Kay, I felt such tenderness and warmth to her that I just wanted to take her out of the 1940’s and go with her for a pint. With another main character, Helen, I felt such negative emotions towards her that I almost found it hard to read the sections involving her, such strong feelings towards fictional people show the strong characterisation skills of Waters.
For Waters’ most recent novel, The Paying Guests, I was lucky enough to go to a book signing in Nottingham with my sister Kirstin. It sounds horribly cliqued but when people say not to meet your heroes because they will not meet your expectations, it is just not true. When I met her and saw her answering questions and doing a reading she just reinforced my fondness for her and her books.
