# Fingersmith novel by Sarah Waters **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 16, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fingersmith-novel-by-sarah-waters/915528 "2020-07-16T22:22:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fingersmith-novel-by-sarah-waters/915528/1 "2020-07-16T22:22:56Z")
I have a question about a plot twist, do spolier tags work here? I here there is a book-dropping plot twist in the novel but I don’t know what it is yet and do not want to know. Maybe I don’t need spoiler tags. I have read the 1st 150 pages or so, does the twist come after that? Because if it is before, not much of a twist at all. Yes or no answers only please. Years ago when I saw The Sixth Sense, about 6 months after it came out, either Siskel or Ebert were reviewing the best movies of the year, and they didn’t want to give it away. I think it was Ebert who said something like, "it wasn’t like “I woke up and it was all a dream’” . About 20 minutes into the movie, I knew exactly he meant and it spolied it for me. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fingersmith-novel-by-sarah-waters/915528/2 "2020-07-17T05:45:58Z")
Apparantley no one who has read this thread so far has read the book, but now the question is moot. I just got to it and it is a good one. Loving the novel. How to describe it? It’s a Gothic Dickensian type story with a lesbian protagonist.