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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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- Titul
- The Paying Guests
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Sarah Waters
- Vydavateľ
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Rok vydania
- 2024
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Počet strán
- 608
- ISBN10
- 0349018537
- ISBN13
- 9780349018539
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletria, Romantika, Historické romány, LGBTQ+, Anglicko, Anglická literatúra, LGBTQ+ romantika, Povojnove obdobie
- Prvé vydanie
- 2014
- Pôvodný názov
- The Paying Guests
- Hodnotenie
- 3,6 z 5
- Anotácia
- '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