
Several pieces add new contributions to existing scholarship. The book provides eight chapters that map the prominent concerns in Waters’s writing, such as gender, sexuality, and class, as well as lesser-examined themes, such as time and space, among others. With a foreword by Andrew Davies, a useful assessment of Waters’s popular and critical reception to date, and an interview with the author herself, this volume is a timely addition to the growing body of criticism on the award-winning author.


Kaye Mitchell’s Sarah Waters: Contemporary Critical Perspectives is a new edition to the Bloomsbury series that aims to offer a comprehensive account of the work of important contemporary authors.
