What they're reading: Sarah Waters

Sarah Waters'The Paying Guests is set during the bleak years following WWI in a London home occupied by a widowed woman and her lonely spinster daughter, Frances. To avoid falling into poverty, the Wray women take in a married couple as boarders. But the companionship Frances finds in the young wife soon turns into something dark and devastating. Our reviewer writes, "Waters once again provides a singular novel of psychological tension, emotional depth and historical detail." Read More