The Paying Guests

The Paying Guests

<b>The €œvolcanically sexy€ (</b><i><b>USA Today</b></i><b>)   bestseller about a widow and her daughter who take a young couple into their home in 1920s London.</b><br>  <br> 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.<br><br> With the arrival of Lilian and Leonard Barber, a modern young couple of the €œclerk 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.<br><br> Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize three times, Sarah Waters has earned a reputation as one of our greatest writers of historical fiction.