![]() ![]() She visits the women next at mealtime and hears some of their stories, including a woman accused of running a brothel and one in prison for killing her baby. Though Margaret’s mother tries to persuade her not to visit the prison again, Margret is eager to go back. However, since she is struck by the young woman, Margaret says nothing to the warden. ![]() During a tour of the cells, she spots one of the prisoners holding a flower, which she knows is not allowed. She decides to become a Lady Visitor at Millbank Prison, where her job will be inspiring the imprisoned women to give up their lives of crime. She dislikes her overbearing mother and has been depressed since her father died. Margaret Prior is an unmarried upper-class woman living in London. ![]() It was also shortlisted for the Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Fiction. Affinity won several awards following its publication, including the Somerset Maugham Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, both in 2000. Like many of Waters’s other works, it explores the interior lives of and romantic relationships between women during the Victorian era in England. Affinity (1999) is English writer Sarah Waters’s second historical fiction novel. ![]()
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