The Paying Guests is out in paperback today!

Sarah Waters’ latest novel The Paying Guests is out today!

The Paying Guests is set in 1922, where in a hushed south London villa life is about to be transformed, as genteel widow Mrs Wray and her discontented daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers. Lilian and Leonard Barber, a modern young couple of the ‘clerk class’, bring with them gramophone music, colour, fun – and dangerous desires. The most ordinary of lives, it seems, can explode into passion and drama . . .

Beautifully described with excruciating tension, real tenderness, believable characters, and surprises, The Paying Guests is a love story that is also a crime story – and vintage Sarah Waters

The Paying Guests

by Sarah Waters

The extraordinary bestselling author, who wrote three astonishing Victorian novels before moving to the 1940s with The Night Watch and The Little Stranger, now turns to the 1920s.

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