The paying guests : by Sarah Waters.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781410476043 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1410476049 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 833 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Wheeler Publishing, 2015.
- Copyright: ℗♭2014.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen, the out-of-work and hungry are demanding change. In a genteel Camberwell villa -- a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and servants -- impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers. Little do the Wrays know just how profoundly their new tenants will alter the course of Frances's life -- or how far-reaching the disturbances will be. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Boardinghouses > Fiction. London (England) > Fiction. Large type books. |
More Options
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
Holds
0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Main | Large Print Fiction Waters (Text) | 31307021726718 | Large Print | Available | - |
Electronic resources
▼ Additional Content

The Paying Guests
Click an element below to view details:
Summary
The Paying Guests
There came the splash of water and the rub of heels as Mrs Barber stepped into the tub. After that there was a silence, broken only by the occasional echoey plink of drips from the tap. Frances had been picturing her lodgers in purely mercenary terms - as something like two great waddling shillings. But this, she thought, was what it really meant to have paying guests: this odd, unintimate proximity, this rather peeled-back moment, where the only thing between herself and a naked Mrs Barber was a few feet of kitchen and a thin scullery door. An image sprang into her head: that round flesh, crimsoning in the heat.