The paying guests / Sarah Waters.
By: Waters, Sarah [author.]
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TextPublisher: New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014Description: 566 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781594633119 (hardcover); 1594633118 (hardcover).Subject(s): Widows -- Fiction | Single women -- Fiction | Landlord and tenant -- Fiction | Class consciousness -- Fiction | Boardinghouses -- Fiction | Lesbians -- Fiction | London (England) -- Fiction | Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- Social conditions -- Fiction | Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- FictionDDC classification: 823/.914 Summary: It is 1922, 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 villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers. 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. 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.
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 823 W171 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003505096 |
It is 1922, 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 villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers. 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. 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.
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