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The paying guests [LP]

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- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language:English
Published: Waterville, Maine : Wheeler Publishing, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
Edition:Large Print edition.
Subjects:
Widows > Fiction.
Guests > Fiction.
Hospitality > Fiction.
Boardinghouses > England > London > Fiction.
London (England) > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Large print books.
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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:831 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
ISBN:9781410476043
1410476049
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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