The Paying Guests

Literature & Fiction

SARAH WATERS

Literary

Virago

Paying Guests

Virago Press Ltd.

HACHETTE UK.

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

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. For 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 and as passions mount and frustration gathers, no one can foresee just how far?reaching and how devastating, the disturbances will be.this is vintage sarah waters: beautifully described with excruciating tension, real tenderness, believable characters and surprises. It is above all, a wonderful, compelling story.

The Paying Guests [Paperback] [Aug 26, 2014] Sarah Waters

Little Stranger

The Ayress family home for over 200 years, Hundreds Hall was once a fine country house. When, one Sunday in 1947, Dr Faraday visits a patient there, he finds a building and a family blighted by the past, and he is drawn into its sinister secret.

Fingersmith

Genre Fiction

Virago Press

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Affinity (Virago V S.)

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