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The Paying Guests, Paperback / softback Book

The Paying Guests Paperback / softback

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'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

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  • Format:Paperback / softback
  • Pages:608 pages
  • Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
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  • ISBN:9780349018539

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  • Format:Paperback / softback
  • Pages:608 pages
  • Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
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  • ISBN:9780349018539