The Paying Guests
shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
It 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 'Sumptuous . . . the writing is impeccable. A joy in every respect' Lionel Shriver, New State…
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- ISBN: 978-0-349-00460-0
- EAN: 9780349004600
- Produktnummer: 16800894
- Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 608 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.8 cm x D4.2 cm 470 g
- Gewicht: 470
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Sarah Waters was born in Wales. She has won a Betty Trask Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and her books have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith and The Night Watch have been adapted for television. Sarah Waters has been named Author of the Year four times: by the British Book Awards, the Booksellers' Association, Waterstone's Booksellers and the Stonewall Awards. She lives in London. She was awarded an OBE in 2019.
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