The paying guests
By: Sarah Waters
Edition: Riverhead trade paperback edition.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 571
ISBN-13: 9781594633928
Subjects: Fiction; Hospitality; Widows; Guests; Boardinghouses
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 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.