{"product_id":"the-paying-guests-sarah-waters-9780349018539","title":"The Paying Guests","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A page-turning melodrama and a fascinating portrait of London on the verge of great change' Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is 1922, and in a hushed south London villa life is about to be transformed, as genteel widow Mrs Wray and her discontented daughter Frances are obliged to take in lodgers. Lilian and Leonard Barber, a modern young couple of the 'clerk class', bring with them gramophone music, colour, fun - and dangerous desires. The most ordinary of lives, it seems, can explode into passion and drama... A love story that is also a crime story, this is vintage Sarah Waters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Another wild ride of a novel... magnetic storytelling' Tracy Chevalier, Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'You will be hooked within a page' Charlotte Mendelson, Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Sumptuous... the writing is impeccable. A joy in every respect' New Statesman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An unsurpassed fictional recorder of vanished eras and hidden lives' Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarah Waters","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48340381860083,"sku":"9780349018539","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9780349018539.jpg?v=1767728255","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-paying-guests-sarah-waters-9780349018539","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}