Film, TV or Theatrical Adaptations
- Fingersmith, starring Sally Hawkins as Susan Trinder, Elaine Cassidy as Maud Lilly, Imelda Staunton as Mrs Sucksby, and Rupert Evans as Gentleman. In this BBC drama the age of the girls is set at twenty-one, though in the book Maud and Sue are seventeen, taking their eighteenth birthday toward the end of the novel.
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