The Paying Guests

The New York Times bestselling novel that has been called a tour de force Wall Street Journal unputdownable The Washington Post a delicious hothouse of a novel USA Today effortless The Economist seductive Vanity Fair and pitch perfect SalonSuperb bewitchingForget about Fifty Shades of Grey this novel is one of the most sensual you will ever read and all without sacrificing either good taste or a xGx rating NPR One of the years most engrossing and suspenseful novelsa love affair a shocking murder and a flawless ending Will keep you sleepless for three nights straight and leave you grasping for another book that can sustain that high Entertainment Weekly A ratingVolcanically sexy sizzingly smart plenty bloody and just plain irresistiblex USA Today starsIt is 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 villaa large silent house now bereft of brothers husband and even servantslife is about to be transformed as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter Frances are obliged to take in lodgersWith the arrival of Lilian and Leonard Barber a modern young couple of the clerk class the routines of the house will be shaken up in unexpected ways Little do the Wrays know just how profoundly their new tenants will alter the course of Francess lifeor as passions mount and frustration gathers how far-reaching and how devastating the disturbances will beShort-listed for the Man Booker Prize three timesSarah Waters has earned a reputation as one of our greatest writers of historical fiction and here she has delivered again A love story a tension-filled crime story and a beautifully atmospheric portrait of a fascinating time and place The Paying Guests is Sarah Waterss finest achievement yet.