The paying guests
By: Sarah Waters
Publisher: Emblem, McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [Toronto, Ontario]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 571
ISBN-13: 9780771089442
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Widows; Fiction; Hospitality; Boardinghouses
Description: "The year is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. In South London, in a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as Mrs. Wray and her daughter Frances are obliged to take in lodgers. With the arrival of Lilian and Leonard Barber, the routines of the house and the lives of its inhabitants will be shaken up in unexpected ways. And as passions mount and frustration gathers, no one can foresee just how far, and how devastatingly, the disturbances will reach."--publisher description.
Notes: Originally published by McClelland & Stewart, 2014.