by Sarah Waters · Éditions France loisirs · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782298112443
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«Derrière la porte» is a historical novel by Sarah Waters, published by Éditions France Loisirs in paperback (699 pages, in French).
London, 1922. The widow Mrs. Wray and her daughter Frances rent out rooms in their house in Camberwell. The arrival of Lilian and Leonard Barber, a young, modern couple, disrupts the household's routine. Between Frances and Lilian, an intense attraction arises that, amid social tensions and frustration, will change their lives.
This edition is the French translation of The Paying Guests, a novel published in 2014 and shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Walter Scott Prize.
For readers of historical fiction and period dramas with complex relationships and emotional tension.
Sarah Ann Waters is a Welsh novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protagonists, such as Tipping the Velvet (1998) and Fingersmith (2002). Both novels were adapted into TV mini-series by BBC in 2002 and 2005 respectively. The latter novel was also adapted into the South Korean film The Handmaiden (2016).
