Four friends' attempts to find employment and accommodation pits them against landlords and gangsters in Bangkok. . 1:45 am 16 October 2014 "They had no idea how decency, loyalty, courage, how it all shriveled away when one was frightened." In post-war England, where so many men—brothers, fathers, husbands, friends—were lost, the women and society as a whole are struggling to adjust to a hard-won peace they somehow find disappointing. [The Paying Guests] is a magnificent creation, a book that doubles as a time machine, flinging us back not only to postwar London, but also to our own lost love affairs, the kind that left us breathless” —NPR “A beautifully observed tale of murder, suspense, crumbling class distinctions and steamy lesbian love in post-Edwardian London. The Paying Guests, like the post-WW2 The Little Stranger, is suffused with sadness and loss: the First World War is over, but our protagonist Frances is mourning her dead brothers and trying to cope with the reduced circumstances her father's poor financial management and early death have bequeathed to Frances and her mother. A gaudy young working-class … Until then, read it, Flaubert, Zola, and weep -- Charlotte Mendelson * Financial Times * A masterpiece of social unease . Our protagonist, Frances Wray, is shockingly … [The Paying Guests] is the work of an artist at Very disappointing ending. Her next will probably be even better. Thank you to Hachette for so kindly sending this book to me. And in South London, in a genteel villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed. Households are in reduced circumstances and Frances Wray and her mother have to take in lodgers to keep going. If repression has a sound, both The Paying Guests and Coral Glynn have found it. Frances Wray, the protagonist of The Paying Guests, is a 26-year-old woman on the verge of spinsterhood living with her mother in a large house in Champion Hill, London, in 1922.Frances is intelligent and caring, putting others’ interests ahead of her own. Sarah Waters hasn’t released a new book since 2009, and The Paying Guests was worth every day of the wait. The Paying Guests Summary and Study Guide. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? The 26-year-old Frances and her mother, Mrs. Wray, have suffered grievous losses during World War I. … Her next will probably be even better. The Paying Guests was on my library requests list so long that I forgot who recommended it or why, so I was extra surprised by the developments in this historical novel.. Frances lives with her widowed mother just after the Great War, still pretending to be genteel, although the money and the servants are long gone. Waters describes her as beautiful, though she does not take care of her appearance. _____ Michelle Pretorius was born and raised in South Africa and has lived in London, New York and the Midwest. The Paying Guests is the apotheosis of her talent…. The Paying Guests deals with entirely different socioeconomic circumstances than the lush period TV series, but it too peeks under the facade and bedsheets of propriety. Frances Wray and her widowed mother are rattling around in their big Victorian house after the war, and because they desperately need the money, they decide to take in The Barbers, a young married couple. In The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters takes us across the pond and back in time to a society where women’s roles were set and their choices limited. The Paying Guests Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. The Paying Guests is so great! I have tried and failed to find a single negative thing to say about it…Read it, Flaubert, Zola, and weep.” —The Financial Times “[A] seductive thriller.” —Vanity Fair “Outstanding. But The Paying Guests is the apotheosis of her talent; at least for now. I have tried and failed to find a single negative thing to say about it. . The Paying Guests - Ebook written by Sarah Waters. It is 1922, and London is tense. With Shreyas Talpade, Javed Jaffrey, Aashish Chaudhary, Vatsal Sheth. I have tried and failed to find a single negative thing to say about it…Read it, Flaubert, Zola, and weep.” —The Financial Times “[A] seductive thriller.” —Vanity Fair “Outstanding. [The Paying Guests is] deep and unusual in the lives it explores and the terrain of love, desire, domesticity, and treachery it illuminates.” —Meg Wolitzer, The Morning News “If you haven’t already embraced the novels of Sarah Waters, now is the moment. 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