num_pages: 564
description: 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 villaa large silent house now bereft of brothers husband and even servantslife is about to be transformed as impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter Frances are obliged to take in lodgers.With the arrival of Lilian and Leonard Barber a modern young couple of the clerk class the routines of the house will be shaken up in unexpected ways. Little do the Wrays know just how profoundly their new tenants will alter the course of Francess lifeor as passions mount and frustration gathers how far-reaching and how devastating the disturbances will be.
language: English
title: The Paying Guests
publisher: Riverhead Books