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All the way to the anti-climactic end. Such a soap opera. Such tedium, analyzing class structure as if it meant something, only to find that it didn't. I will say that, as I was reading, I often felt *too* immersed.... Well, yeah, that's right... I felt more than engaged, more as if I were actually drowning in this awful world. <br><br>No interest in reading the author's other works.<br>Even less interest than usual in reading epics that never get to a point.<br><br>Ok, some of you wonder how I never get snarky in my reviews? Well, here's a thing. Frances was always building fires and burning s*, right? Too bad she couldn't throw this self-indulgent manipulative melodrama in one of them. (Ok, yeah, lame, I guess I don't do snarky well.)<br><br>And, to you bi-curious wanna-bees reading this, know that it's a fantasy. No lesbian Princess Charming is going to fall in love with you and try to steal you from your husband. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss2.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_273608850" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_273608850"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_273608850" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_273608850" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_273608850"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Cheryl_in_CC_NV" target="_top">Cheryl_in_CC_NV</a> | Oct 18, 2024 | <a href="/review/273608850"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_270111060" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/14583809" data-workid="14583809" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1594633118.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1594633118.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1594633118.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>A real page turner. 1922 London, and the country is still suffering the lost of so many men in the Great War. Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter Frances are going broke, as besides losing to brothers to the war, it turns out that Frances' deceased father left them with nothing but debts. They have a big house, and they rent out rooms to a young couple, and the book is about their relationship.<br><br>Waters' writing is very descriptive, especially in its middle portion when all hell breaks loose. She also uses the tropes of mystery novels and especially noirs, really well, as all through the book you feel the inevitability of what is coming, and it really puts an effective dark cloud over everything. You can see what's coming, but it's not predictable.<br><br>This isn't as strong a book as The Little Stranger, but I couldn't put it down, driven mostly by her descriptive writing. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_270111060" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_270111060"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_270111060" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_270111060" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_270111060"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/pstevem" target="_top">pstevem</a> | Aug 19, 2024 | <a href="/review/270111060"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_269089001" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/14583809" data-workid="14583809" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1594633118.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1594633118.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1594633118.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>[a:Sarah Waters|25334|Sarah Waters|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1409248454p2/25334.jpg] can be relied upon for sustained tension and plot twists that catch you off guard. I read 'The Paying Guests' faster than expected, as the tense atmosphere rapidly hooked me. The book begins with early 1920s social awkwardness, as Frances and her mother are forced to rent out the top floor of their house to lodgers. The couple who move in are below Frances' family on the social scale, which creates some initial tension. Then Frances bonds with the housewife, Lilian, while her husband is out at work. Given this is a Sarah Waters novel, I was unsurprised that Frances turned out to be a lesbian and fell in love with Lilian. Subsequent events, however, definitely kept me on my toes. <spoiler>After becoming close friends, Frances and Lilian begin a passionate affair. This is fraught with difficulty, given that it must be kept secret and Lilian is married. I appreciated the fact that both women periodically asked themselves and each other what they were doing, whether this infatuation had any meaningful basis. It would be unrealistic if they did not and Waters is adept at showing that their bond is strong and meaningful. <br><br>I knew from the blurb ('...a love story that is also a crime story...') that at some point there would probably be a murder. Lilian taking illegal abortifacients then accidentally killing her husband Leonard in the same evening was still a shocking twist. With incredible level-headedness, Frances manages to cover up both. I am not a great fan of whodunnits and get much greater enjoyment from novels like this, in which the reader knows exactly what happened and the suspense comes from whether anyone (or everyone) else finds out. The last 350 pages of 'The Paying Guests' are compulsive to read for just this reason. The police investigate Leonard's death; Frances and Lilian consider confessing to manslaughter, decide it is too late, then reconsider repeatedly after a young man is arrested for Leonard's murder. The final twist, that the man is acquitted and the two women reunite as they still love each other, took me by surprise. I was expecting a downbeat, tragic ending and was pleased to find it hopeful instead.</spoiler><br><br>'The Paying Guests' evokes London a hundred years ago very vividly, with many details of personal grooming, housework, class differences, etc. Frances' perspective conveys the psychological claustrophobia of sharing a home with strangers better than anything else I've read for a long time. Although it wasn't as ingenious as [b:Fingersmith|8913370|Fingersmith|Sarah Waters|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1545241494l/8913370._SY75_.jpg|1014113], I found 'The Paying Guests' highly involving and beautifully written. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_269089001" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_269089001"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_269089001" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_269089001" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_269089001"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/annarchism" target="_top">annarchism</a> | Aug 4, 2024 | <a href="/review/269089001"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_268110209" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/14583809" data-workid="14583809" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1594633118.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1594633118.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1594633118.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>This writer is smooth as silk... I did not even get through the first full page and I felt myself floating inward.... into her world.<br>Looking forward to the adventure of this book. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss6.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_268110209" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_268110209"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_268110209" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_268110209" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_268110209"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/asl4u" target="_top">asl4u</a> | Jul 21, 2024 | <a href="/review/268110209"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_266446284" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/14583809" data-workid="14583809" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1594633118.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1594633118.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1594633118.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Um, I didn't finish. This book is BORING! <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss4.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_266446284" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_266446284"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_266446284" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_266446284" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_266446284"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/kwagnerroberts" target="_top">kwagnerroberts</a> | Jun 24, 2024 | <a href="/review/266446284"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class='reviewnav'><div class="right"><strong><a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,3,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','14583809','',false, null, 'profile');return false;">date<span class="sortArrow"> ▼</span></a></strong> | <a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,2,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','14583809','',false, null, 'profile'); return false;">votes</a></div>Showing 1-5 of 203 (<a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',5,0,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','14583809','', false, null, 'profile'); return false;">next</a> | <a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,0,3,'wp_reviews',10000,'','14583809','', false, null, 'profile'); return false;">show all</a>)</div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_53" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><div class="sectionhead_rbutcontainer" style="float: right;"><span class="sectionTitleHelp"><span class="sectionTitleHelp"><a href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Published_Reviews" class="blacklink" title="Help"><img style="vertical-align:middle;" class="helpIcon" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/helpq.png" alt="?"></a></span></span></div> <a name="publishedreviews"></a><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'mediareviews', 'u_ddf62e5f', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>Published reviews</span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_ddf62e5f" style="display:block;"><div id="mediareviews_container"><div id="mediareviews"><table class="sa_tools" id="u_ef694683_link"><tr><td id="left">5 reviews</td><td id="center"><a href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'workid':'14583809'});return false;">add a review</a></td><td id="right"> thingScore <a href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Published_Reviews"><span class="mre_score mre_score_good">65</span></a></td></tr></table><div class="bookReview" mr_id="33544" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_8edfaeb1" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_33544" class="commentText">"Some novels are so good, so gripping or shattering that they leave you uncertain whether you should have ever started them. You open “The Paying Guests” and immediately surrender to the smooth assuredness of Sarah Waters’s silken prose. Nothing jars. You relax. You turn more pages. You start turning them faster. Before long, you resemble Coleridge’s Wedding-Guest: You cannot choose but read. The book has you in thrall. You will follow Waters and her story anywhere. Yet when that story ends, you find yourself emotionally sucked dry, as much stunned as exhilarated by the power of art."</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/lorax">lorax</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'33544', 'workid':'14583809'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/michael-dirda-reviews-the-paying-guests-by-sarah-waters/2014/09/10/811596ac-351f-11e4-9e92-0899b306bbea_story.html" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">Washington Post</span>, <span class="nowrap">Michael Dirda</span></a> <span rawdate="1410321600" class="nowrap">(Sep 10, 2014)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="33548" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_0160677b" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_33548" class="commentText">The superbly talented Sarah Waters — three times shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize — leads her readers into hidden worlds, worlds few of us knew existed. And so it is with The Paying Guests. ..Amid this heart-crushing drama, uncaring London grinds on, a cacophony of “hooves, voices, hurrying steps, the clash and grinding of iron wheels” that threatens to destroy the hopes of summer: an utterly engrossing tale.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/vancouverdeb">vancouverdeb</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'33548', 'workid':'14583809'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2014/10/24/the_paying_guests_by_sarah_waters_review.html" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">Toronto Star</span></a></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="33547" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_59cc3b06" title="5.0 Stars" aria-title="5.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-du.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_33547" class="commentText">Novel tackles big themes but lacks bite...Yet the love story’s progression – to say more would give too much away – is not entirely convincing by the end..Characterisation has a hint of familiarity, as if characters have been derived from Waters’ bank of past creations, and they lose some of their gleam for it, though the story stays emotionally-charged...</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/vancouverdeb">vancouverdeb</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'33547', 'workid':'14583809'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-paying-guests-by-sarah-waters-book-review-novel-tackles-big-themes-but-lacks-bite-9683573.html" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">The Independent</span></a></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="33546" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_4f7b60d8" title="7.0 Stars" aria-title="7.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-u.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_33546" class="commentText">The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters' superb, bewitching new novel, is set in 1922 London...My only quibble with The Paying Guests is its length; the last hundred pages or so chronicle a court trial and feel padded, the first time I've ever had that reaction to a Sarah Waters novel. Otherwise, this 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 — and far too besotted to notice that we had somehow misplaced our moral compass.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/vancouverdeb">vancouverdeb</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'33546', 'workid':'14583809'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/09/23/347418535/a-historic-backdrop-frames-forbidden-love-in-the-paying-guests" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">NPR</span></a></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="33545" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_ce1f10c4" title="1.0 Stars" aria-title="1.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-dd.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_33545" class="commentText">This fascinating domestic scenario might have made for an absorbing short novel;... Its pastiche propriety and faux-Edwardian prose (people are forever "colouring" and "crimsoning" and "putting themselves tidy") become irritants; and the novel's descent into melodrama as a murder is committed – and the inspector called – turns this engaging literary endeavour into a tiresome soap opera....Waters's unusual gift for drama and for social satire is squandered on the production of middlebrow entertainment:.. it would be good to see Waters produce something corrective and sharp, in which her authoritative and incisive dramatic style was permitted to be sufficient satisfaction on its own.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/vancouverdeb">vancouverdeb</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'33545', 'workid':'14583809'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a 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href="/award/1521.0.0.2015/Europese-Literatuurprijs-2015">2015</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/4159/Goldie-Award" class="" >Goldie Award</a> (<a href="/award/4159.5/Goldie-Award-Finalist">Finalist</a> – <a href="/award/4159.0.13936/Goldie-Award-Romantic-Suspense%25252FIntrigue%25252FAdventure">Romantic Suspense/Intrigue/Adventure</a> – <a href="/award/4159.0.0.2015/Goldie-Award-2015">2015</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/230/Goodreads-Choice-Awards" class="" >Goodreads Choice Awards</a> (<a href="/award/230.2/Goodreads-Choice-Awards-Nominee">Nominee</a> – <a href="/award/230.0.2699/Goodreads-Choice-Awards-Historical-Fiction">Historical Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/230.0.0.2014/Goodreads-Choice-Awards-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/725/Independent-Booksellers-Book-Prize" class="" >Independent Booksellers' Book Prize</a> (<a href="/award/725.1/Independent-Booksellers-Book-Prize-Winner">Winner</a> – <a href="/award/725.0.3308/Independent-Booksellers-Book-Prize-Adult">Adult</a> – <a href="/award/725.0.0.2015/Independent-Booksellers-Book-Prize-2015">2015</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/945/International-Dublin-Literary-Award" class="" >International Dublin Literary Award</a> (<a href="/award/945.3/International-Dublin-Literary-Award-Longlist">Longlist</a> – <a href="/award/945.0.0.2016/International-Dublin-Literary-Award-2016">2016</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/1516/Kirkus-Prize" class="" >Kirkus Prize</a> (<a href="/award/1516.5/Kirkus-Prize-Finalist">Finalist</a> – <a href="/award/1516.0.5/Kirkus-Prize-Fiction">Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/1516.0.0.2014/Kirkus-Prize-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/879/Lambda-Literary-Award" class="" >Lambda Literary Award</a> (<a href="/award/879.5/Lambda-Literary-Award-Finalist">Finalist</a> – <a href="/award/879.0.5785/Lambda-Literary-Award-Lesbian-General-Fiction">Lesbian General Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/879.0.0.2015/Lambda-Literary-Award-2015">2015</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/273/The-Morning-News-Tournament-of-Books" class="" >The Morning News Tournament of Books</a> (<a href="/award/273.39/The-Morning-News-Tournament-of-Books-Semi-Finalist">Semi-Finalist</a> – <a href="/award/273.0.0.2015/The-Morning-News-Tournament-of-Books-2015">2015</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/1735/Paterson-Fiction-Prize" class="" >Paterson Fiction Prize</a> (<a href="/award/1735.5/Paterson-Fiction-Prize-Finalist">Finalist</a> – <a href="/award/1735.0.0.2015/Paterson-Fiction-Prize-2015">2015</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/1049/Walter-Scott-Prize-for-Historical-Fiction" class="" >Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction</a> (<a href="/award/1049.3/Walter-Scott-Prize-for-Historical-Fiction-Longlist">Longlist</a> – <a href="/award/1049.0.0.2015/Walter-Scott-Prize-for-Historical-Fiction-2015">2015</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/1353/Womens-Prize-for-Fiction" class="" >Women's Prize for Fiction</a> (<a href="/award/1353.4/Womens-Prize-for-Fiction-Shortlist">Shortlist</a> – <a href="/award/1353.0.0.2015/Womens-Prize-for-Fiction-2015">2015</a>)</div></div></div><h2>Distinctions</h2><div id="u_e6647f41" class="lt_itemlist"><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/316/Amazons-Best-Books-of-the-Month" class="" >Amazon's Best Books of the Month</a> (<a href="/award/316.0.0.211598/Amazons-Best-Books-of-the-Month-september-2014">september 2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/618/Historical-Novel-Society-Editors-Choice" class="" >Historical Novel Society Editors' Choice</a> (<a href="/award/618.0.5065/Historical-Novel-Society-Editors-Choice-Literary-Thriller">Literary Thriller</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/175/Kirkus-Reviews-Best-Book-of-the-Year" class="" >Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year</a> (<a href="/award/175.0.1615/Kirkus-Reviews-Best-Book-of-the-Year-Literary-Fiction">Literary Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/175.0.0.2014/Kirkus-Reviews-Best-Book-of-the-Year-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/15142/NPR-Books-We-Love" class="" >NPR: Books We Love</a> (<a href="/award/15142.0.0.2014/NPR-Books-We-Love-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/733/The-Observer-Book-of-the-Year" class="" >The Observer Book of the Year</a> (<a href="/award/733.0.5/The-Observer-Book-of-the-Year-Fiction">Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/733.0.0.2014/The-Observer-Book-of-the-Year-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/202/San-Francisco-Chronicle-Best-Book-of-the-Year" class="" >San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year</a> (<a href="/award/202.0.5/San-Francisco-Chronicle-Best-Book-of-the-Year-Fiction">Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/202.0.0.2014/San-Francisco-Chronicle-Best-Book-of-the-Year-2014">2014</a>)</div></div></div><h2>Notable Lists</h2><div id="u_636f9408" class="lt_itemlist"><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/2563/ALA-Over-the-Rainbow-Book-List" class="" >ALA Over the Rainbow Book List</a> (<a href="/award/2563.106/ALA-Over-the-Rainbow-Book-List-Selection">Selection</a> – <a href="/award/2563.0.5/ALA-Over-the-Rainbow-Book-List-Fiction">Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/2563.0.0.2015/ALA-Over-the-Rainbow-Book-List-2015">2015</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/2563/ALA-Over-the-Rainbow-Book-List" class="" >ALA Over the Rainbow Book List</a> (<a href="/award/2563.135/ALA-Over-the-Rainbow-Book-List-Top-Ten">Top Ten</a> – <a href="/award/2563.0.0.2015/ALA-Over-the-Rainbow-Book-List-2015">2015</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/15255/Los-Angeles-Public-Library-Best-of-the-Year" class="" >Los Angeles Public Library Best of the Year</a> (<a href="/award/15255.0.5/Los-Angeles-Public-Library-Best-of-the-Year-Fiction">Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/15255.0.0.2014/Los-Angeles-Public-Library-Best-of-the-Year-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/279/Chicago-Public-Library-Best-of-the-Best-Adults" class="" >Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: Adults</a> (<a href="/award/279.106/Chicago-Public-Library-Best-of-the-Best-Adults-Selection">Selection</a> – <a href="/award/279.0.5/Chicago-Public-Library-Best-of-the-Best-Adults-Fiction">Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/279.0.0.2014/Chicago-Public-Library-Best-of-the-Best-Adults-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/15247/King-County-Library-System-Best-Books" class="" >King County Library System Best Books</a> (<a href="/award/15247.0.22339/King-County-Library-System-Best-Books-Fiction-Books">Fiction Books</a> – <a href="/award/15247.0.0.2014/King-County-Library-System-Best-Books-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/870/LibraryReads" class="" >LibraryReads</a> (<a href="/award/870.241/LibraryReads-Monthly-Pick">Monthly Pick</a> – <a href="/award/870.0.6822/LibraryReads-Top-Ten">Top Ten</a> – <a href="/award/870.0.0.194430/LibraryReads-September-2014">September 2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/1509/Slate-Top-Ten-Book-of-the-Year" class="" >Slate Top Ten Book of the Year</a> (<a href="/award/1509.0.0.2014/Slate-Top-Ten-Book-of-the-Year-2014">2014</a>)</div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_60" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><div class="sectionhead_rbutcontainer"><a value="view history" value="view history" class="func_lt2_display_ui lt2button btn 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class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_characternames"></a>People/Characters</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_745ce4cf' itemType='1' itemNum='14583809' fieldType='3' name='u_745ce4cf' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'characternames' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Enter each character's name in a separate box. Examples: Hermione Granger, Andrew Jackson, Oberon, St. Paul of Tarsus, or Zeus (Deity)' ><div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Frances+Wray">Frances Wray</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Mrs+Emily+Wray">Mrs Emily Wray</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Lilian+Barber">Lilian Barber</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Leonard+Barber">Leonard Barber</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Christina+Lucas">Christina Lucas</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class="itemnumberoverflow" id="link_u_ab2899fc">(<a href="javascript:showHiddenfieldcontent('u_ab2899fc')">show all 14 items</a>)</div><div id="u_ab2899fc" style="display: none;"><div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Mrs.+Viney">Mrs. Viney</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Detective+Inspector+Ronald+Kemp">Detective Inspector Ronald Kemp</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Vera+Grice">Vera Grice</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Netta+Rawlins">Netta Rawlins</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Min+Lynch">Min Lynch</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Spencer+Ward">Spencer Ward</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Charlie+Wismuth">Charlie Wismuth</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Jane+Playfair">Jane Playfair</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Miss+Mabel+%22Billie%22+Grey">Miss Mabel "Billie" Grey</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </div></td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_placesmentioned"></a>Important places</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_8382e32f' itemType='1' itemNum='14583809' fieldType='2' name='u_8382e32f' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'placesmentioned' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = '"Boston, Massachusetts, USA", "London, England", "The Plaza Hotel, New York, New York, USA", "Hogwarts", "Alpha Centauri", "Hell"' ><div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/Camberwell%2C+Southwark%2C+London%2C+England%2C+UK">Camberwell, Southwark, London, England, UK</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_events"></a>Important events</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_55cdf7a6' itemType='1' itemNum='14583809' fieldType='34' name='u_55cdf7a6' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'events' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Great Fire of London (1666), Battle of the Bulge (1944|1945), Assassination of John F. Kennedy (1963-11-22), Battle of Hoth' ><div class='fwikiItem divevents'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/events/The+Great+War">The Great War</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_movies"></a>Related movies</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_44d12216' itemType='1' itemNum='14583809' fieldType='37' name='u_44d12216' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'movies' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Blade Runner (1982), The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Three Musketeers (1993)' ><div class='fwikiItem divmovies'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" editVal="" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr>     <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_epigraph"></a>Epigraph</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_1f5ec2db' itemType='1' itemNum='14583809' fieldType='28' name='u_1f5ec2db' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'epigraph' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The work's epigraph, "a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component." ' ><div class='fwikiItem divepigraph'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_dedication"></a>Dedication</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_d5d672d5' itemType='1' itemNum='14583809' fieldType='30' name='u_d5d672d5' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'dedication' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Author's dedication' ><div class='fwikiItem divdedication'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >To Judith Murray, <br>with thanks and with love</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_firstwords"></a>First words</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_2e6672ca' itemType='1' itemNum='14583809' fieldType='25' name='u_2e6672ca' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'firstwords' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The first sentence of the work.' ><div class='fwikiItem divfirstwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >The Barbers had said they would arrive by three.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divfirstwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >Many books helped to inform and inspire this one. (Author's Note)</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_quotations"></a>Quotations</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_7375dd8a' itemType='1' itemNum='14583809' fieldType='27' name='u_7375dd8a' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'quotations' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Well-known, relevant or interesting quotations from the work; Quotation marks are unnecessary.' ><div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >He took the life of the room with him.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >When she and Lilian escaped from the house at last, Frances felt as she imagined a fly might feel when, by some miracle, it had managed to prise its limbs free from a strip of sticky paper.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >The pavement threw up heat like a griddle; they kept to the shade as much as they could as they made their way down the hill, but it was warm even on the platform of the station, in the bluish dusk of the railway cut.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >The crowd was a Saturday-night one. People were heading to theatres, picture-houses, dancing-halls. The men had an oiled-and-varnished look.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >The air was soupy with smells: meat, fish, ripe fruit, perspiring bodies.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class="itemnumberoverflow" id="link_u_8f6b8d46">(<a href="javascript:showHiddenfieldcontent('u_8f6b8d46')">show all 12 items</a>)</div><div id="u_8f6b8d46" style="display: none;"><div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >Frances felt an answering pressure around her heart, something dark and almost frightening, like the intimation of agony.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >He'd become not a man, but something resembling a man, something bulky and empty and wrong.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >It was as though their life, thought Frances, were being mercilessly spooled back on to a reel; or as if, one by one, the stitches that had fastened them together were being unpicked.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >In the silent house, her heels were noisy as gunshots as she went down.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >The scullery roof had sprung a leak: she put down a bowl to catch the drips, but the rainwater spread and darkened, to make treasure maps and Whistler nocturnes of the walls and ceilings.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >A bit of heat struggling inadequately from a metal grating.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >But she was used to that by now, used to this kind of waiting, that was slack as worn elastic yet had the tautness of wire.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </div></td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_lastwords"></a>Last words</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_17f3dea5' itemType='1' itemNum='14583809' fieldType='26' name='u_17f3dea5' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'lastwords' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The last sentence of the work. Content will be hidden unless clicked.' ><div class='fwikiItem divlastwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" id="u_1156c5c5" style="display: none; min-height:12px;" >But for now there was this, and it was enough, it was more than they could have hoped for: the two of them, in their srtone corner, their dark clothes bleeding into the dusk, lights being kindled across the city, and a few pale stars in the sky.</div><a href="javascript:showHiddenfieldcontent('u_1156c5c5')" id="link_u_1156c5c5">(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)</a><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divlastwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" id="u_8e98f80f" style="display: none; min-height:12px;" ><I>The Paying Guests</I>, however, is a work of fiction. 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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.</div></div><div id="workpagesort_25" class="quickedit light"><div class="nav"><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'libdesc', 'u_8576ad2a', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>Library descriptions</span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_8576ad2a" style="display:block;"><p>No library descriptions found.</p></div></div><div id="workpagesort_70" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><div class="sectionhead_rbutcontainer"><span class="sectionTitleHelp"><a href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Common_Knowledge#LibraryThing_members.27_description" class="blacklink" title="Help"><img style="vertical-align:middle;" class="helpIcon" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/helpq.png" alt="?"></a></span></div><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'ckdesc', 'u_2657487d', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>LibraryThing members' description</span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_2657487d" style="display:block;"> <div class="workSection"> <table class="fwikiContainerTable ch2"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel">Book description</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_8def39d8' itemType='1' itemNum='14583809' fieldType='14' name='u_8def39d8' allowmultiple='0' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'description' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'This is a general description. It is not a review.' ><div class='fwikiItem divdescription'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >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. 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. 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. 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.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> </table></div> <a name="haiku"></a> <div class="workSection"> <table class="fwikiContainerTable ch2"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel">Haiku summary</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_f2a664a0' itemType='1' itemNum='14583809' fieldType='57' name='u_f2a664a0' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'haikusummary' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Add a summary or other appreciation in haiku form (17 syllables; 5/7/5); include your member name in parentheses.' ><div class='fwikiItem divhaikusummary'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong 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