{"product_id":"the-paying-guests-9780349018539b","title":"The Paying Guests","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eLilian 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e'Another wild ride of a novel... magnetic storytelling' Tracy Chevalier,\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e Observer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'You will be hooked within a page' Charlotte Mendelson,\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e Financial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Sumptuous... the writing is impeccable. A joy in every respect' \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An unsurpassed fictional recorder of vanished eras and hidden lives' \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Virago Press (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42820328030288,"sku":"9780349018539B","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780349018539-l.jpg?v=1785879326","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/the-paying-guests-9780349018539b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}