Finished Su 6/23/24
This is a trade paperback that I bought on Amazon and it arrived Sa 4/20/24 {Four Twenty Day}. I bought the book because I saw 'HANDMAIDEN' by the Korean director, Park Chan-wook and the film is set in Korea during the Japanese occupation of the 1930's.
This is the best novel that I've read in months. Well written and a convoluted plot that's well worth the effort.
BASIC PLOT: A con-man and a family of criminals try to steal a young woman's inheritance.
Summary from Goodreads:
"Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a “baby farmer,” who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves—fingersmiths—for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home.
One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives—Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, they will all share in Maud’s vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be disposed of—passed off as mad, and made to live out the rest of her days in a lunatic asylum.
With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways, but no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals."
Link to the novel's page at Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingersmith_(novel)
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