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'A page-turning melodrama and a fascinating portrait of London on the verge of great change' GuardianIt is 1922, and 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... A love story that is also a crime story, this is vintage Sarah Waters.'Another wild ride of a novel... magnetic storytelling' Tracy Chevalier, Observer'You will be hooked within a page' Charlotte Mendelson, Financial Times'Sumptuous... the writing is impeccable. A joy in every respect' New Statesman'An unsurpassed fictional recorder of vanished eras and hidden lives' Sunday Times
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The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2024
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- Titel
- The Paying Guests
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Sarah Waters
- Verlag
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2024
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 608
- ISBN10
- 0349018537
- ISBN13
- 9780349018539
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Romantik, Historische Romane, LGBTQ+ Literatur, England, Englische Literatur, LGBTQ+ Liebesromane, Nachkriegszeit
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2014
- Originaltitel
- The Paying Guests
- Bewertung
- 3,6 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 'A page-turning melodrama and a fascinating portrait of London on the verge of great change' GuardianIt is 1922, and 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... A love story that is also a crime story, this is vintage Sarah Waters.'Another wild ride of a novel... magnetic storytelling' Tracy Chevalier, Observer'You will be hooked within a page' Charlotte Mendelson, Financial Times'Sumptuous... the writing is impeccable. A joy in every respect' New Statesman'An unsurpassed fictional recorder of vanished eras and hidden lives' Sunday Times