01306cam a2200313 i 4500 182172202 TxAuBib 20141031120000.0 140429s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014016148 9781594633119 1594633118 TxAuBib rda Waters, Sarah, 1966- The paying guests / Sarah Waters. New York, New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014. pages cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. 20141031. Widows Fiction. Guests Fiction. Hospitality Fiction. Boardinghouses England London Fiction. London (England) Fiction. Historical fiction.