The paying guests
by Sarah Waters
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It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.
For with the arrival of Lilian and Leonard Barber, a modern young couple of the ‘clerk class’, the routines of the house will be shaken up in unexpected ways. And as passions mount and frustration gathers, no one can foresee just how far-reaching, and how devastating, the disturbances will be.
This is vintage Sarah Waters: beautifully described with excruciating tension, real tenderness, believable characters, and surprises. It is above all a wonderful, compelling story.
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Fiction, Hospitality, Widows, Guests, Boardinghouses, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2014-10-05, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, LGBTQ historical fiction, Fiction, historical, London (england), fiction, Widows, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Large type books, Single women, Landlord and tenant, Class consciousness, Lesbians, History, Social conditions, GuesthousesShowing 7 featured editions. View all 7 editions?
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The paying guests
2015, Wheeler Publishing, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
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2014, Riverhead Books, Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
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