The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters Published by Riverhead on September 16th 2014
Pages: 560
Genres: Historical Fiction
Format: Hardcover
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Also by this author: Tipping the Velvet
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.
About Sarah Waters
Sarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her first novel, Tipping the Velvet, as well the novels that followed, including Affinity, Fingersmith, and The Night Watch.
Waters attended university, earning degrees in English literature. Before writing novels Waters worked as an academic, earning a doctorate and teaching. Waters went directly from her doctoral thesis to her first novel. It was during the process of writing her thesis that she thought she would write a novel; she began as soon as the thesis was complete.
I have yet to read all of Sarah Waters books but I truly adored Affinity and Tipping the Velvet. The Paying Guests is bound to be amazing based on that summary.
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Christine @Buckling Bookshelves
I’m looking forward to this one too!
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Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies
I’ve got it on pre-order! Fingersmith is one of my all-time favorite books, and I really loved Tipping the Velvet. Still have to read Affinity… maybe I’ll bring it on vacation this summer! Great WoW choice. 🙂
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Bonnie
I haven’t read Fingersmith yet but Tipping the Velvet and Affinity were both fantastic. Really dying to read The Little Stranger.. love a good ghost story. 🙂
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Celine
I can’t wait for the new Sarah Waters either! Have loved all the books I read by her so far (: So many books set in the Twenties seem to be getting published lately
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Bonnie
I still have a few more of hers to read but the ones I have read were most impressive. Yes, that era is seeing a lot of activity. Probably Downton Abbey’s fault. lol
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Celine
Hadn’t thought about Downton Abbey – you’re probably right!
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Megan
This isn’t what I usually read, but I’m trying to branch out a bit and this one sounds like it could be very good.
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Bonnie
Hope it’s something you end up enjoying if you do try it!
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