The paying guests

571 pages

English language

Published Sept. 29, 2015 by Emblem, McClelland & Stewart.

ISBN:
9780771089442
OCLC Number:
911214002

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"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.

4 editions

Subjects

  • Widows
  • Fiction
  • Hospitality
  • Boardinghouses

Places

  • England
  • London
  • London (England)