MOST OBSERVANT
SARAH WATERS
Gay Victorian fiction could be a hard niche to escape, but London-based novelist Waters has managed to bring her self-described “lesbo historical romps” into the mainstream with no small amount of critical acclaim. Her fifth novel, The Little Stranger, a ghost story (and her first project without explicitly gay overtures), came out in April and was short-listed for this year’s Man Booker Prize, an honor that was bestowed on two of her previous novels, among them Fingersmith, which was also adapted into a BBC series.
