The paying guests
By: Sarah Waters
Edition: Paperback edition.
Publisher: Virago
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 599
ISBN-13: 9780349004600
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Fiction; Hospitality; Widows; Boardinghouses
Description: It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen, the out-of-work and hungry are demanding change. In a genteel Camberwell villa -- a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and servants -- impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers. Little do the Wrays know just how profoundly their new tenants will alter the course of Frances's life -- or how far-reaching the disturbances will be.