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| Interview with Sarah Waters by Debbie Taylor SARAH WATERS is an accidental historical novelist. If her PhD had been in particle physics, her first book would probably have been science fiction. As it happens she was studying homosexuality in the literature of the 18th Century. ‘Tipping the Velvet grew out of my thesis and I ended up being sucked more and more into that period,’ she tells me. The result was a trio of chunky books, culminating in Fingersmith, which was shortlisted for both the Man Booker and Orange prizes, and made her a shoo-in on Granta’s list of 20 Best Young British Novelists last year – one of the only authors all the judges could agree on. She lives on the fourth floor of up-and-coming Regency terrace in south London. It’s a warren of rooms with slanting ceilings, once the servants’ quarters of some well-to-do family: an appropriate setting for the woman who’s made the intimate shenanigans of history’s underclass her stock-in-trade. Pixyish in a faded tracksuit (‘my writing clothes’), she brews up builders’ tea for me and a fresh rosemary infusion for her before we settle down either side of the fireplace with her two (‘lesbian icon’) cats. Unlike with most authors, there was never a period in Waters’ adult life when she wasn’t a writer. There was never a day job to juggle with… For the whole interview, read Issue 20 » Subscribe! Go to » Sarah Waters' Method |
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For more on SARAH WATERS, go to www.sarahwaters.com
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