I bought this book having read "Affinity" - my favourite Waters book. It took a while for me to get into the book, but once I did - I was completely hooked. I think it very brave of Waters to explore psychological/mental health of the Ayres family; especially in a 1940s setting - when mental illn...
I was unfamiliar with Sarah Waters. . .and now I'm puzzled. This book worked well for me for the first third, or perhaps the first half. . .then I thought maybe I had mistakenly gotten into a Lifetime movie script and it was all downhill from there. I liked Waters writing about post-WWI England,...
In any short story collection, but particularly one with stories by multiple authors, it is impossible that all the stories should be equally pleasing. The first two stories I found exceptionally good, but the rest varied in quality and suitability to my personal taste. They are all quite short...