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The paying guests

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 Mr...

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Main Author: Waters, Sarah, 1966-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
Subjects:
Widows > Fiction.
Guests > Fiction.
Hospitality > Fiction.
Boardinghouses > England > London > Fiction.
London (England) > Fiction.
Historical fiction > England.
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Summary: 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.
Physical Description: 566 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781594633119 (hardcover)
1594633118 (hardcover)
Author Notes: Sarah Waters was born in Wales in 1966. She has a Ph.D. in English. She is the author of several books including Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, The Night Watch, and The Paying Guests. Fingersmith won the CWA Ellis Peters Dagger Award for Historical Crime Fiction and the South Bank Show Award for Literature. She has won a Betty Trask Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. In 2003, she was chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and was named Author of the Year by the British Book Awards, The Booksellers' Association and Waterstone's Booksellers. Several of her novels have been adapted for television.

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