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In post world war one London a genteel Camberwell villa (now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants) sees impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, forced to take in lodgers, but the arrival of modern young couple Lilian and Leonard Barber shakes up the house and its inhabitants lives in unexpected ways . . .
A love story that is also a suspense-filled crime story, and a beautifully atmospheric portrait of a fascinating time and place, The Paying Guests is Sarah Waters' finest achievement yet.
“A beautifully observed tale of murder, suspense, crumbling class distinctions and steamy lesbian love in post-Edwardian London. Like something Virginia Woolf might have written if she’d been racier” -- People