Sarah Waters — The Paying Guests
London, Virago Press Ltd. 2014. First edition. Cloth. A signed limited edition of Waters"s acclaimed post-WWI domestic thriller, sealed as issued. In the publisher's original cloth binding, sealed in the plastic wrap, unopened. A limited edition being one of one thousand copies numbered and signed by the author. This is an intriguing historical novel by Sarah Waters, set in post-World War I London, where genteel poverty forces a widowed mother and her daughter to take in lodgers. The arrival of a young married couple disrupts the fragile household equilibrium, giving way to simmering class tensions, illicit desire, and, ultimately, crime. The book was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and named "Fiction Book of the Year" by The Sunday Times. In the publisher's original cloth binding, sealed in the plastic wrap, unopened. As new. As New . Ill.: None. As New .
