i have never read any of sarah water novel and or watch tip the velvet . i only hear about fingersmith when i be flip through the l word websites . the storyline of fingersmith interested me and yet i pass it away and think lesbian in victorian period and that never end well and i have enough of those lesbo series and movie that go no wherehowever and during christmas my local dvd store give fingersmith a discount and i bring the dvd and and my life have never be more colourfulthis mini series deserve to be cherish and praise . the acting be so great that i call it rare . sally hawkins and elaine cassidy and rupert evans and imelda staunton and and many more that i can not name all and bring light and darkness to their character . just by a little gesture and a little look and a little touch and they make their character real and a a viewer and i couldn not help it but take them home and keep them close . fingersmith and set in victorian area and be a story of sue a thief who love and live with her family of pick pocket . little do she know that her fate be link to maud lily a somewhat shy and timid girl grow up in a mansion mile and mile away . maud mother leave her a fortune and but maud herself can not touch it and unless she marry . bad of all and maud uncle make sure she never will by keep her prisoned in the house . enter mr gentlement and a charming and good look thief with a heart as bad a any . he want maud fortune for himself and and in order to do so he set sue up a maud lily maid and ask sue to persuade maud to elope with him . a time go by and thing would be simple and if sue do not fall in love with maud . and thing would be simple and if the story be what i have just tell . i do not wish to spoil and so i would like to stop there . but i can asure you that everything be twist and turn before you can even aware of what have happen . once it happen and you then question what would happen next . on top of that and the story be fill with passion unlike any others . there be no self search and sexuality questioning and oh my god do i like girl moment and because the girl in fingersmith be bury so deep in their own darkness that they barely be able to care . the story with such twisted plot move as smooth a water and run passionately and but strangely calm . week have pass since i watch fingersmith and yet maud eye still haunt me and and sue word still warm my heart you pearl and you pearl and you pearl and she say . and such pearl it be .