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Riverhead
September 2014
On Sale: September 16, 2014
Featuring: Frances Wray; Lilian and Leonard Barber
516 pages ISBN: 1594633118 EAN: 9781594633119 Kindle: B00INIQUOQ Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical
From the bestselling author of The Little Stranger
and Fingersmith, an enthralling novel 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, and here she has delivered
again. 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.
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