![]() It is above all a wonderful, compelling story. This is vintage Sarah Waters: beautifully described with excruciating tension, real tenderness, believable characters, and surprises. And as passions mount and frustration gathers, no one can foresee just how far-reaching, and how devastating, the disturbances will be. Read more 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 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. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. ![]() SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE This novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Little Stranger, is a brilliant 'page-turning melodrama and a fascinating portrait of London of the verge of great change' (Guardian) It is 1922, and London is tense. The extraordinary bestselling author, who wrote three astonishing Victorian novels before moving to the 1940s with The Night Watch and The Little Stranger, now turns to the 1920s. ![]() Description for The Paying Guests Paperback. ![]()
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