More about the book
'A page-turning melodrama and a fascinating portrait of London on the verge of great change' GuardianIt 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
Book purchase
The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters
- Language
- Released
- 2024
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (Paperback)
Payment methods
We’re missing your review here.
- Title
- The Paying Guests
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Sarah Waters
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Released
- 2024
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 608
- ISBN10
- 0349018537
- ISBN13
- 9780349018539
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, LGBTQ+, England, English Literature, LGBTQ+ Romance, Post-War Era
- First published
- 2014
- Original title
- The Paying Guests
- Rating
- 3.6 out of 5
- Description
- 'A page-turning melodrama and a fascinating portrait of London on the verge of great change' GuardianIt 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