Minerva Koenig reviewed The paying guests by Sarah Waters
even better
5 stars
I liked this even better than 'Affinity,' and I loved 'Affinity'
571 pages
English language
Published Sept. 29, 2015 by Riverhead Books.
The paying guests
by Sarah Waters
5 stars
(1 review)
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.
Subjects
- Fiction
- Hospitality
- Widows
- Guests
- Boardinghouses
Places
- England
- London
- London (England)