Product DescriptionThe volcanically sexy (USA Today) ??bestseller about a widow and her daughter who take a young couple into their home in 1920s London.
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It is 1922 and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London in a genteel Camberwell villaa large silent house now bereft of brothers husband and even servantslife is about to be transformed as impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter Frances are obliged to take in lodgers.
With the arrival of Lilian and Leonard Barber a modern young couple of the clerk class the routines of the house will be shaken up in unexpected ways. Little do the Wrays know just how profoundly their new tenants will alter the course of Francess lifeor as passions mount and frustration gathers how far-reaching and how devastating the disturbances will be.
Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize three times?Sarah Waters has earned a reputation as one of our greatest writers of historical fiction.Amazon.com ReviewAn Amazon Best Book of the Month?? September 2014: It is 1922?? in a genteel house in a genteel neighborhood just outside of London. Here?? the widowed Mrs. Wray and her 26-year-old daughter?? Frances?? pass each day very much like the day before?with Frances busying herself with household chores?? maybe a bit of needlepoint?? and her mother nibbling on a lunch of cauliflower cheese while making notes for the parish n