![]() ![]() A love story, a tension-filled crime story, and a beautifully atmospheric portrait of a fascinating time and place, The Paying Guests is Sarah Waters's finest achievement yet. Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize three times, Sarah Waters has earned a reputation as one of our greatest writers of historical fiction, and here she has delivered again. ![]() 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. It was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and named 'Fiction Book of the Year' by The Sunday Times who said that 'this novel magnificently confirms Sarah Waters' status as an unsurpassed fictional recorder of vanished eras and hidden lives. ![]() 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. The Paying Guests is a 2014 novel by Welsh author Sarah Waters. The Paying Guests by Waters, Sarah: Condition: Good. Details about The Paying Guests by Waters, Sarah See original listing. This listing was ended by the seller because the item is no longer available. ![]() Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers. See more The Paying Guests by Waters, Sarah Share. 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. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. ![]()
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