{"product_id":"9780349018539","title":"The Paying Guests","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Waters, Sarah \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 08\/08\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 608 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780349018539,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\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":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57221794660725,"sku":"9780349018539","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780349018539.jpg?v=1779571793","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780349018539","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}