The Paying Guests
Sarah Waters, 2014
595 pages
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✔ 2 women in love and in crime
✔ Gripping suspense
✔ Life in London after the war
🔽 Review summary 🔽
★★★★★ As expected, it's gripping, exciting, and a great storytelling. A woman lives quietly with her mother falls in love with a beautiful young wife of the tenant, they're in love in crime, all in secret.
🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
As expected, it's gripping, exciting, and a great storytelling.
The story is more straightforward than Fingersmith, but definitely not less curious.
It has all the good female characters.
After the war a woman now lives modestly with her mother, they decide to rent out a room but she falls for the young beautiful wife. And yes we'll have a crime scene and it all goes wrong.
They're in love but who manipulates who? But is it manipulation or true love?
They find a tiny corner in the hostile society where they love blindly.
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The Paying Guests
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The Paying Guests: shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
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