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She is best known for writing or co-writing Australian television productions including Mabo, Bastard Boys, RAN, The Road from Coorain, The Leaving of Liverpool, and Brides of Christ. Her screenwriting for film includes Peaches and co-writing Saving Mr. Banks.
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Sue Smith may refer to: Sue Smith (politician) (born 1951),...
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29 apr 2019 · The story of George Johnston and Charmian Clift is one that has fascinated writer Sue Smith for much of her career. Here, we talk to her about why she chose to bring this Australian myth to...
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Part one
Sue Trinder, an orphan raised in "a Fagin-like den of thieves" by her adoptive mother, Mrs Sucksby, is sent to help Richard "Gentleman" Rivers seduce a wealthy heiress. Posing as a maid, Sue is to gain the trust of the lady, Maud Lilly, and eventually persuade her to elope with Gentleman. Once they are married, Gentleman plans to commit Maud to a madhouse and claim her fortune for himself. Sue travels to Briar, Maud's secluded home in the country, where she lives a sheltered life under the ca...
Part two
In the second part of the novel, Maud takes over the narrative. She describes her early life being raised by the nurses in the mental asylum where her mother died, and the sudden appearance of her uncle, who arrives when she is eleven to take her to Briar to be his secretary. Her induction into his rigid way of life is brutal; Maud is made to wear gloves constantly to preserve the surfaces of the books she is working on, and is denied food when she tires of labouring with her uncle in his lib...
Part three
The novel resumes Sue's narrative, picking up where Maud and Gentleman had left her in the mental asylum. Sue is devastated at Maud's betrayal and furious that Gentleman double-crossed her. When she screams to the asylum doctors that she is not Mrs Rivers but her maid Susan, they ignore her, as Gentleman (helped by Maud) has convinced them that this is precisely her delusion, and that she is really Maud Lilly Rivers, his troubled wife. Sue is treated appallingly by the nurses in the asylum, b...
Susan Trinder- The protagonist of the novelMaud Lilly- The heiress whom Sue plans to defraudRichard 'Gentleman' Rivers- Partner in crime to both Sue and MaudMrs Sucksby- Adoptive mother of Sue; Maud's real motherThe book is notable for its eroticism and depiction of pornography. Reviewers have praised Waters' negotiation of sexual themes; a review from The Guardian describes it as "erotic and unnerving", while The New York Timespraises its "illicit undertow". Literary critics have also focused on the novel's sexual themes, and identified its engagement wit...
In her Notes on the Text, Waters informs the reader that the book Christopher Lilly and Maud are working on is actually based on bibliographies published by Henry Spencer Ashbee, under the pseudony...Waters also states in the Notes that all of the texts cited by Maud in Fingersmithactually existed, and lists their titles accordingly.Shortlisted for the Orange PrizeShortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeWinner of the CWA Historical Daggerfor Historical Crime FictionThe novel has been adapted for television, the stage and as a film. Fingersmith, a BBC TV adaptation, was broadcast in 2005. Its cast included Sally Hawkins as Susan Trinder, Elaine Cassidy as Maud Lilly, Imelda Staunton as Mrs Sucksby, and Rupert Evansas Gentleman. Alexa Junge wrote a stage adaptation (also titled Fingersmith) that premiered in Ma...
Sarah Waters discusses Fingersmith- BBC Radio 4 Bookclub - 7 March 2004Sue Smith is a multi-award-winning screenwriter, playwright and script editor. Her numerous works include Kryptonite, Machu Picchu, Brides of Christ and many more. Sue was the STC Patrick White Playwrights Fellow for 2018 and received the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Australian Writers’ Guild.
Sue Smith (born 1959) is an Australian screenwriter and playwright. She is best known for writing or co-writing Australian television productions including Mabo (2012), Bastard Boys (2007), RAN (2006), The Road from Coorain (2002), The Leaving of Liverpool (1993), and Brides of Christ (1991).
3 set 2018 · Sue Smith is a multi-award winning screenwriter, playwright and script editor. Recent screen credits include co-writer of feature film Saving Mr Banks, produced by Disney Pictures in 2013 and starring Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson, and ABC telemovie MABO (screened SFF in 2012 and winning an AWGIE and Queensland Literary Award).
