it be always difficult to bring a 450 page book down to a three hour film . i read the book before and and i find the bbc production deal with this difficulty in the best way possible . the quality of the book haven not be lose represent the dense and lively depiction of a fingersmith patchwork family in london in the 1860s and the cold and obscene cruelty in which maud be bring up and the characterization of different social group by different way of speaking and the unexpected and surprising twist of the story and the way the film make the spectator look different at the same scene when they be tell first from sue point of view then from maud one . the main actor do very good and and especially the grow love between the two woman be convincingly develop and with a first culmination in a very tender love scene between the two and finally forgive all the evil they be ready to do and do to each other and because they still love each other . for each of her book the author and sarah water and have thoroughly investigate what life be like in british 19th century . while in tip the velvet it be the world of the vaudeville theater and the beginning of social movement and in affinity the dreadful reality of woman penitentiary and the fashionable evocation of spirit and in fingersmith she depict the public ceremony of hang people in london and the inhuman treatment of person suppose or declare disturbed in asylum base on the reading of source and scientific research . this be very well transfer to the film so that the corresponding scene show a high grade of historic truth . i highly recommend this film production because it offer three hour of colorful victorian atmosphere and vivid emotion and and suspense .