The paying guests

Sarah Waters

earliest edition we have, 2014 Virago, 2014 566 pages

Wheeler Publishing large print hardcover

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. For with the arrival of Lilian and Leonard B...

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Editions we hold

Los huéspedes de pago edition · 2017 · Anagrama · 616 pages · 9788433979711
The paying guests edition · 2015 · Riverhead Books · 571 pages · 9781594633928
The paying guests edition · 2015 · Emblem, McClelland & Stewart · 571 pages · 9780771089442
The paying guests edition · 2015 · Virago · 599 pages · 9780349004600
The paying guests edition · 2015 · Wheeler Publishing, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning · 831 pages · 9781410476043
Paying Guests edition · 2014 · Virago · 566 pages · 9780349004587
The paying guests hardcover · 2014 · Riverhead Books · 566 pages · 9781594633119

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