It’s one of the toughest questions you can ask a reader: “What is your
favorite book”. It’s virtually impossible for constant readers to pick just one
book as a favorite. And that’s fair, I think... we all find different things we
love in different books. Different characters we identify with or love to
visit, different plotlines that grab us, different themes that move us.
For years I couldn’t answer the question myself. One or two Christmases
ago, though, I picked up a Sarah Waters novel for the first time, lured in by
her themes of historical lesbian romance. The book was Affinity. I’d had another of her novels, Fingersmith, on my bookshelf for ages but never got around to
reading it. Why Affinity should call
to me so strongly, when I hardly even knew what it was about, I’m not sure. But
I had no idea what I was getting into.
