The Paying Guests (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781594633928)

The "volcanically sexy" (USA Today) bestseller about a widow and her daughter who take a young couple into their home in 1920s London.

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.

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. Little do the Wrays know just how profoundly their new tenants will alter the course of Frances's life--or, as passions mount and frustration gathers, how far-reaching, and how devastating, the disturbances will be.

Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize three times, Sarah Waters has earned a reputation as one of our greatest writers of historical fiction.

Author: Sarah Waters
ISBN-10: 1594633924
ISBN-13: 9781594633928
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2015
Pages: 592
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
People Weekly 10/05/2015 pg. 58
New York Review of Books 10/11/2015 pg. 28
Entertainment Weekly 11/20/2015 pg. 114