The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
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.At the University of Leeds, Sarah Waters is a Lecturer in French Studies. She is a prolific writer on the theory and practice of French social movements, with her most recent book, Social Movements in France: Towards a New Citizenship, published by Palgrave in 2003, receiving high praise.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781594633119 |
| ISBN 10 | 1594633118 |
| Title | The Paying Guests |
| Author | Sarah Waters |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Riverhead Books |
| Year published | 2014-09-16 |
| Number of pages | 576 |
| Prizes | Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Fiction) 2015, Commended for Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (Fiction) 2015, Commended for Kirkus Prize (Fiction) 2014 |
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