The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

Good, 4 stars

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.

Details

ISBN9781594633119
Copyright Date2014
Publication DateSeptember 2014
PublisherRiverhead
FormatHardcover
No. of Pages566
LanguageEnglish
NotesLambda Literary Award Finalist, Lesbian Fiction
RatingGood
GenreHistorical Fiction
SubjectBoardinghouses - Fiction. - England; Guests - Fiction; Hospitality - Fiction; London (England) - Fiction; Widows - Fiction