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The Paying Guests

by Sarah Waters

Kirkus Prize (Fiction) · 2014 · Shortlist
Riverhead Booksliterary-fictionISBN 9781594632396

Award History

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Kirkus Prize (Fiction)Fiction2014Shortlist

About This Book

In 1920s London, a widow forced to take in lodgers falls into a passionate and dangerous affair with the wife of her male lodger. A Kirkus Prize finalist and Baileys Women's Prize finalist.

About the Author

Sarah Waters is a Welsh author known for her Victorian-era novels featuring lesbian protagonists, including Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith, and The Paying Guests. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Kirkus Prize.

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