The Paying Guests
Sarah Waters
"A page-turning melodrama and a fascinating portrait of London on the verge of great change." Guardian
It is 1922, and in a hushed south London villa, life is about to be transformed as genteel widow Mrs Wray and her discontented daughter Frances are obliged to take in lodgers.
Lilian and Leonard Barber, a modern young couple of the "clerk class", bring with them gramophone music, colour, fun and dangerous desires. The most ordinary of lives, it seems, can explode into passion and drama.
A love story that is also a crime story, this is vintage Sarah Waters.
"Another wild ride of a novel... magnetic storytelling." Tracy Chevalier, Observer
"You will be hooked within a page." Charlotte Mendelson, Financial Times
"Sumptuous... the writing is impeccable. A joy in every respect." New Statesman
"An unsurpassed fictional recorder of vanished eras and hidden lives." Sunday Times
| Title: | The Paying Guests |
| Author: | Sarah Waters |
| ISBN: | 9780349018539 |
| Format: | Paperback / softback |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Dimensions: | 128 x 199 x 41 mm |
| Publication Date: | 08 August, 2024 |
| Pagination: | 608 pages |
| Weight: | 468 g |