The Paying Guests (Hardcover)

from mckait

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters begins in 1922. The war is newly over, many men are dead, families shattered and an entire way of life has simply faded away for so many. Many ex- servicemen are out of work and desperate. Life has changed for everyone, everywhere, it seemed, not just in south Lo...

from doryfish

Sarah Waters crafts some of the most wonderful love stories I've ever read. She is a master at capturing all the emotional - and physical - ripples that come when you fall for someone. On the other hand, the crime aspect falls flat. I maybe would have liked if the book was a "whydunit" or if ther...

from RidgewayGirl

Sarah Waters sets her latest novel in suburban London in 1922. Frances Wray and her mother are still recovering from losing not only both of the sons in their family, but also Frances's father, who died leaving much less money than either woman had anticipated. Faced with her mother's helplessnes...

from lauralkeet

Times are tough for Frances and her mother. World War I deprived them of loved ones, and sources of income, and they are forced to let rooms in their London house in order to make ends meet. Their lodgers -- whom they prefer to call "paying guests" -- are Lilian and Len Barber, a young married co...

from Smiler69

London, 1922. Frances Wray and her aging mother have been living together in their large villa in Camberwell, a district in south London, all on their own, ever since Frances's two brothers were killed in the war, her father's death following shortly after, leaving both her mother and her in redu...