The Paying Guests [Paperback]

The “volcanically sexy” (USA Today)   bestseller 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.Named a Best or Notable Book of 2014 by theNew York Times, theWashington Post, NPR, Slate,Entertainment Weekly,People, theSan Francisco Chronicle, NPR Fresh Air, Refinery 29,The St. Louis Post-Dispatch,The Seattle Times,The Kansas City Star,The Millions, The Vancouver Sun,The Guardian,The Telegraph, Barnes & Noble, Hudson Booksellers, AARP,Kirkus Reviews, Pop Sugar,Publisher's Lunch, andBookPage

Awesome, full-bodied novel. 'It's like she's saying, hey dudes, this is how you do it.' —Stephen King (via Twitter)

“Waters is an absolute master of pulse-pounding historical fiction.” –Entertainment Weekly

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