The Paying Guests

By Sarah Waters

Book Overview

The "volcanically sexy" ( USA Today ) bestseller about a widow and her daughter who take a young couple into their home in 1920s London. It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771089449
• ISBN13: 9780771089442
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Emblem Editions
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.1" x 5.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Slow and incredibly frustrating

This book took so long to get to tha main plot point and just completely fell off afterwards. The writing is really good which is why I even remember it but I hated the characters and the plot. I painfully finished it with steam coming out of my ears. Don't dead this if you enjoy a happy ending.

Very slow

This book is an absolute chore to read. I trudged through 120 pages with no action of any kind and I finally gave up. I love period piece drama and this book sounded like something I would enjoy but it was just plain boring.

Great read

I purchased this book long ago and finally got around to reading it after reviewing the back several times and deciding it didn't sound very interesting, or deciding against it based on the length of the book. If only I'd known this was such a fascinating book; totally captured my attention... This is a somewhat scandalous read for 20s-30s (and up). Pleasantly surprised...