E-audiobook
The paying guests
Record details
- ISBN: 9780553544855 (electronic audio bk.)
- ISBN: 0553544853 (electronic audio bk.)
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (1 sound file (21 hr., 29 min., 04 sec.)) : digital - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [Westminster, MD] : Books on Tape, [2014]
Content descriptions
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Juliet Stevenson. |
| Source of Description Note: | Hard copy version record. |
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| Subject: | Widows -- Fiction Entertaining -- Fiction Hospitality -- Fiction Boardinghouses -- England -- London -- Fiction London (England) -- Fiction FICTION -- Historical |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Downloadable audio books. Historical fiction. Audiobooks. |
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- Baker & Taylor
Forced to take in lodgers in economically challenged 1922 South London, widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter find their lives profoundly and disturbingly changed by the arrival of a modern young couple. - Findaway World Llc
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 villaâa large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servantsâlife 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 âclerk class,â 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 Francesâs lifeâor, 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 Watersâs finest achievement yet. - Random House Digital
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.
