



Her novels have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction and she has won the Betty Trask Award the Somerset Maugham Award The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award the South Bank Show Award for Literature and the CWA Historical Dagger. She is the author of six novels, Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith, The Night Watch and The Little Stranger, which have been adapted for stage, television and feature film in the UK and US, and The Paying Guests.
