by Sarah Waters · Little, Brown · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780349004600
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«The Paying Guests» is the historical novel by Sarah Waters, published by Little, Brown in paperback (599 pages, in English).
In 1922, in south London, the widow Mrs. Wray and her daughter Frances take in lodgers to make ends meet. The arrival of Lilian and Leonard Barber, a young modern couple, unsettles the house and awakens in Frances an unexpected attraction. The cohabitation leads to a story of love and crime with unforeseeable consequences.
The cover indicates that the novel was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and named fiction book of the year by The Sunday Times.
For readers of historical and romantic fiction, with a particular interest in LGBTQ+ stories and in interwar London.
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).
