With 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. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa-a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants-life is about to be transformed as impoverished widow Mrs. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change.

'Volcanically sexy, sizzingly smart, plenty bloody and just plain irresistible.' -USA Today (4 stars) Will keep you sleepless for three nights straight and leave you grasping for another book that can sustain that high.' - Entertainment Weekly (A rating) 'One of the year's most engrossing and suspenseful novels.a love affair, a shocking murder, and a flawless ending.

'Superb, bewitching.Forget 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 'G' rating' - NPR 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' ( Salon) A love story, a tension-filled crime story, and a beautifully atmospheric portrait of a fascinating time and place, The Paying Guests is Sarah Waters's finest achievement yet. Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize three times, Sarah Waters has earned a reputation as one of our greatest writers of historical fiction, and here she has delivered again. Little do the Wrays know just how profoundly their new tenants will alter the course of Frances's life or, as passions mount and frustration gathers, how far-reaching, and how devastating, the disturbances will be. With 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. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants life is about to be transformed as impoverished widow Mrs.

From the bestselling author of The Little Stranger and Fingersmith, an enthralling novel about a widow and her daughter who take a young couple into their home in 1920s London.

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters