The Paying Guests
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the unemployed and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed. 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 are violently shaken. As passions mount and frustration gathers, no one can foresee how far-reaching and devastating the disturbances will be.
This is vintage Sarah Waters: beautifully described with tension, real tenderness, believable characters, and surprises. It is above all a wonderful, compelling story.
About the Author
Sarah Waters was born in Wales in 1966 and lives in London. Author of Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith and The Night Watch, her most recent book is The Little Stranger.
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