{"product_id":"9780349018539","title":"The Paying Guests","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Sarah Waters\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHistorical fiction\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 8 August 2024 by Little, Brown Book Group (Virago Press Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 608 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 199 x 41mm | 468g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarah Waters","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56153950486853,"sku":"9780349018539","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9780349018539_1cc976c6-e47c-49d6-bf48-497282e28ff1.jpg?v=1773515562","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9780349018539","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}