The Paying Guests is a novel set in London in 1922. The author, Sarah Waters, writes about a woman named Frances (age 27) who lives with her mother now that her two brothers were killed in the first world war and her father has also died. Before the war they were a wealthy family but now they have fallen on hard times which is why they open their house to the paying guests otherwise known as renters. Len and Lilly Barber move into some rooms of the house and their presence disrupts the lives of Frances and her mother. Len is loud and clumsy and a bit cruel. Lilly is passive and flirty and seems to be in need of guidance and assistance, or is that just an act she plays? The book is full of moral quandaries and tension. I thought it was a good story but just a little dragged out.
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