Fingersmith S. J. Bolton Adiga conjures a remarkable fictional

Adiga conjures a remarkable fictional landscape

he was a man of whom everybody was a little afraid

A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England

Susan watches the creation of a barren world - an architecture of stone terraces above bleak and empty beaches - and waits to be rescued

Still haunted by the aftermath of 'The Bridegroom' case three months before

Fingersmith S. J. Bolton Adiga conjures a remarkable fictionalWe were all more or less thieves at Lant Street. But we were that kind of thief that rather eased the dodgy deed along, than did it We could pass anything, anything at all, at speeds which would astonish you. There was only one thing, in fact, that had come and got stuck one thing that had somehow withstood the tremendous pull of that passage one thing that never had a price put to it. I mean of course, Me.' Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, is born