![]() I know that, for a long time, I wanted to be an archaeologist – like lots of kids. I don’t know if I thought about it much, really. Despite her obvious enjoyment of writing, she did not feel any special calling or preference for becoming a novelist in her youth. Waters said, "When I picture myself as a child, I see myself constructing something, out of plasticine or papier-mâché or Meccano I used to enjoy writing poems and stories, too." She wrote stories and poems that she describes as "dreadful gothic pastiches", but had not planned her career. ![]() Her father, "a fantastically creative person", encouraged her to build and invent. She describes her family as "pretty idyllic, very safe and nurturing". Her mother was a housewife and her father an engineer who worked on oil refineries. She grew up in a family that included her father Ron, mother Mary, and a "much older" sister. She later moved to Middlesbrough, England, when she was eight years old. Sarah Waters was born in Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales in 1966. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protagonists, such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith. Sarah Ann Waters OBE (born 21 July 1966 ) is a Welsh novelist. ![]()
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