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Named a Best or Notable Book of 2014 by the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, Slate, Entertainment Weekly, People, the San Francisco Chronicle, NPR Fresh Air, Refinery 29, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Seattle Times, The Kansas City Star, The Millions, The Vancouver Sun, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Barnes & Noble, Hudson Booksellers, AARP, Kirkus Reviews, Pop Sugar, Publisher's Lunch, and BookPage

"Awesome, full-bodied novel. 'It's like she's saying, hey dudes, this is how you do it.' " --Stephen King (via Twitter)

"Superb, bewitching...Forget about Fifty Shades of Grey; this novel is one of the most sensual you will ever read, and all without sacrificing either good taste or a "G" rating... [The Paying Guests] is a magnificent creation, a book that doubles as a time machine, flinging us back not only to postwar London, but also to our own lost love affairs, the kind that left us breathless" --NPR

"A beautifully observed tale of murder, suspense, crumbling class distinctions and steamy lesbian love in post-Edwardian London. Like something Virginia Woolf might have written if she'd been racier" --People

"You open The Paying Guests and immediately surrender to the smooth assuredness of Sarah Waters's silken prose... You cannot choose but read. The book has you in thrall. You will follow Waters and her story anywhere... A novel that initially seems as if it might have been written by E.M. Forster darkens into something by Dostoevsky or Patricia Highsmith. It also becomes unputdownable ... the reader is in for a seriously heart-pounding roller-coaster ride."--The Washington Post

"[Waters] masterfully weaves true crime, domestic life and romantic passion into one of the best novels of suspense since Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca... [The Paying Guests is] diabolically clever... with one of the hottest sex scenes ever to be set in a scullery." --Los Angeles Times

"Pitch perfect... powered by queer longing, defiant identity politics, and lusty, occasionally downright kinky sex" --Slate

"[A] tour de force of precisely observed period detail and hidden passions." --Wall Street Journal

"It's been a while since a book kept me up until 3:30 a.m., but The Paying Guests grabbed me and would not let me go...The wonderfully melodramatic plot, the brilliant characterization of protagonist Frances Wray, the vivid depiction of the zeitgeist in post-WWI London -- each of these elements was equally responsible for the kidnapping of this unsuspecting reader, as masterminded by British novelist Sarah Waters, a three-time Booker Prize finalist." --Newsday

"A delicious hothouse of a novel...There's palpable tension from page one, so buckle up and prepare for a wild ride...The Paying Guests channels the past via E.M. Forster, Dickens and Tolstoy, quickened with a dollop of contemporary Dennis Lehane noir...This is a fever dream of a novel -- Waters' best -- that will leave you all wrung out. Perhaps, like Frances, in desperate need of a cigarette." -- USA Today

"Waters turns to the 1920s and delivers what feels like three novels for the price of one...a meticulously observed comedy of awkward manners ... a story of torrid, forbidden trysts conducted behind a facade of conventional feminine respectability...[and] a tense tale of crime, mystery and suspense that culminates in a nail-biting courtroom drama...Exceedingly difficult to put down, The Paying Guests should scratch the same big-novel itch that Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch satisfied last year." --Salon

"Waters is so good about writing about women taking note of other women... I felt deeply moved and nerve-wracked by the secrecy that the women endure as lovers of their era, and I believed in their passion, which is often vivid and tautly observed... Her novel is lived-in, erotic...witty, emotional, and suspenseful...and all of that is in the service of authentic human drama... [The Paying Guests is] deep and unusual in the lives it explores and the terrain of love, desire, domesticity, and treachery it illuminates." --Meg Wolitzer, The Morning News

"If you haven't already embraced the novels of Sarah Waters, now is the moment. Don't think twice. Collect all six and devour them with the same feverish abandon of the lovers who can be found between their covers...[The Paying Guests] is no romance novel or mere thriller, but a well-wrought, closely observed drama of a tumultuous period in British history... Herein lies the deliciousness of this book, and the others Waters has written: As much as Frances longs to give her heart to someone who will cherish it, we can never be sure, when she opens the final door, whether she will find the lady or the gallows." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"The new Sarah Waters novel, which finds the author at the height of her powers, weaves her characteristic threads of historical melodrama, lesbian romance, class tension, and sinister doings into a fabric of fictional delight that alternately has the reader flipping pages as quickly as possible, to find out what happens next, and hesitating to turn the page, for fear of what will happen next." --Boston Globe

"A gold mine of period detail, from class snobbery to sex - but with a timeless urgency when it comes to love." --Vogue

"A beautiful and turbulent novel about the complexity, and often futility, of personal and social change... Waters has not only crafted a vivid portrait of class dissolution in post-WWI London, but also a look at the achingly human need for a sense of purpose and, if we're lucky, a little intimacy." --A.V. Club (A- grade)

"Sarah Waters is so skillful that the reader (to borrow a simile from Lilian and Frances' love affair) softens in her hands like wax: It's impossible to think critically about technique or style or plot -- or do anything but turn the next page. The Paying Guests makes for a transporting, even rapturous, reading experience." --NPR.org

"Waters is that rare literary stylist who can write a rip-roaring page-turner without sacrificing characterization or description...Even minor characters...are drawn with Dickensian flair... absorbing...you will want to sample her other works." --Providence Journal

"Waters always writes well about sex and her new novel is no exception: It's both hot and sensually beautiful, transcending cheap cliché." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"A great book captivates you -- pulls you in as though you have fallen somewhere into the plot. Author Sarah Waters is a master of this premise -- a heady task she proves in her latest historical novel, The Paying Guests. Waters takes readers on a journey through the past -- we begin reading late at night, only to find ourselves eyes-wide-open, completing the book in the early dawn... pining for her next thriller." --The Weekender

"[A] pulse-pounder of a novel that feels...personal and raw...even while it delivers the genre goods...Waters remains a master of her genre, the historical novel rewritten as a dissection of the individual conscience... undeniably fascinating." --The Chicago Tribune

"The Paying Guests is a richly sensual and suspenseful historical novel -- sleek and streamlined" --Columbus Dispatch

"Clear your calendar for this transfixing book: You'll want no interruptions. The propulsive story focuses on a young woman, Frances, living with her widowed mother in struggling 1920s London. Needing money, they take in a pair of newlyweds, and the tension builds as Frances begins a passionate, secret affair with the wife that leads to a terrible crime."--AARP Bulletin

"Lesbian sex, brutal murder and frantic cover-ups don't tend to go hand in hand with subtle slow-burn storytelling. But that's exactly the case in Sarah Waters's captivating new novel, The Paying Guests...To say anything more would be a disservice to Waters's masterful narrative. But suffice it to say that a terrible thing occurs, the women's relationship is tested and you will be the crazy person staying up until 2 a.m. to see how it all comes together." --PureWow.com

"The first three hundred pages of Guests belong to Charles Dickens, but the rest of the book reads like pure, uncut Patricia Highsmith. Waters brings the best of those disparate muses together and convinces them to dance to the tune of her beautiful music." --The Stranger

"Waters has always been attracted to sensationalist plots, and this novel progresses through at least two: a secret love affair between two women and a murder trial. But the novel is really about tiny changes in feeling, often evoked in gorgeous simile." --The New Yorker

"One of the greatest modern novelists... As in every Waters novel you will be hooked within a page... The Paying Guests reminds us of every great novel we've gasped or winced at, or loudly urged the protagonists through, and it does not relent... She can, it seems, do everything: the madness of love; the squalor of desire; the coexistence of devotion and annoyance; 'the tangle of it all'... At her greatest, Waters transcends genre...The Paying Guests is the apotheosis of her talent.... I have tried and failed to find a single negative thing to say about it...Read it, Flaubert, Zola, and weep." --The Financial Times

"[A] seductive thriller." --Vanity Fair

"Outstanding. [The Paying Guests] is the work of an artist at the height of her powers... How difficult, and how admirable, to pull off an ending that both sates you and leaves you chomping for more... You feel as if an actual life were unfolding before you--a life that happens to be far more thrilling than most." --Pop Matters

"Shocking, no matter what generation you belong to." --Marie Claire

"Perfectly transporting." --Gawker

"Ms. Waters' prose is...effortless to read...[A] beautifully evoked story, rich with period detail." --The Economist

"An entirely believable piece of social commentary that nevertheless expertly undermines the damning, short-sighted, and narrow-minded strictures of the period it sets out to elucidate." --The Daily Beast

"The awkwardness of sharing a house with strangers jumps off the page. You hear every creak in the floor and you sense how very crowded the rooms suddenly feel -- and that something terrible is about to happen... Waters' writing is a pleasure" --Seattle Times

"Hard to put down. It has the pacing of a thriller, and the atmosphere, period setting and class-consciousness of truly informed historical fiction." --Bay Area Reporter

"The superbly talented Sarah Waters -- three times shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize -- leads her readers into hidden worlds, worlds few of us knew existed. And so it is with The Paying Guests....You can practically taste the tension in the lovely old house... [a] heart-crushing...utterly engrossing tale." --Toronto Star

"Waters is one of fiction's rock stars...[and] The Paying Guests is, quite literally, a virtuoso performance." --Harpers Bazaar (UK)

"Raunchy, romantic and thoroughly entertaining. Another triumph for Sarah Waters, [The Paying Guests] is unputdownable." --The Express

"Impressive and pleasurable... Waters sets her tale in the time effortlessly... A lot of work must have gone into writing this novel but it is no labor at all to devour" -- Lionel Shriver, The New Statesman

"A masterpiece of social unease... so compellingly readable, that the temptation to finish the 500-odd pages of Waters's novel at a sitting is powerful... a virtuoso feat of storytelling" -- London Evening Standard

"Waters has become a virtuoso historical novelist... a page-turning melodrama and a fascinating portrait of London on the verge of great change." --The Guardian

"This is perfect territory for Sarah Waters...[and] the sex is blazingly described." --The Spectator

"Always superb at suspense, Waters...draws you into a narrative that, while remaining agonizingly credible, is a master-feat of twists and shifts... you can hardly turn the pages fast enough." --The Times (UK)

"Waters excels at presenting the raw interiority of a quietly heroic woman, slightly too ahead of her time... a poignant love story which symbolically sees in the death of the old order, the death of the old-fashioned husband and maybe the birth of an era of love without secrets." --The Independent

"Fans of Sarah Waters' previous novels know she is a gifted storyteller with a way of bringing historical eras to life... With the swiftly shifting mores of postwar British society as a back-drop, [she] once again provides a singular novel of psychological tension, emotional depth and his-torical detail." --BookPage

"An absorbing and richly satisfying historical novel...[that] seduces the reader... The Paying Guests should establish Waters as one of Britain's best contemporary storytellers." -- Shelf Awareness

"Waters's page-turning prose conceals great subtlety. Acutely sensitive to social nuance, she keeps us constantly alert to the pain and passion churning under the 'false, bright' surface of gentility. From a novelist who has been shortlisted for the Booker three times, this is a winner" --Intelligent Life

"Riveting, [Waters'] best yet...It will be an injustice if it doesn't win one of the main literary prizes." --The Daily Express (UK)

"Waters is acutely alive to the way domestic interiors can mirror psychological ones... I read the topsy turvey courtroom denouement with genuine wonder at the virtuosity of its unravelling, the emotional subtlety of its implications about how people linger in others. Such intelligence is indeed thrilling." --The Telegraph

"Once in a very long while comes a book that is so vivid and so powerful that the disconnect from normal time and living takes place once again. The Paying Guests is such a book. I found myself transported, yes, but also moved, shaken and disorientated by turns...[Waters'] eye and ear for detail are extraordinary. The reader does not so much read about the villa on Champion Hill as inhabit it...But The Paying Guests is no study of manners...It is grisly, graphic...
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The New York Times bestselling novel that has been called “a tour de force” (Wall Street Journal), “unputdownable” (The Washington Post), “a delicious hothouse of a novel” (USA Today), “effortless” (The Economist), “seductive” (Vanity Fair) and “pitch perfect” (Salon)
 
“Superb, bewitching...Forget about Fifty Shades of Grey; this novel is one of the most sensual you will ever read, and all without sacrificing either good taste or a "G" rating” – NPR
 
“One of the year’s most engrossing and suspenseful novels...a love affair, a shocking murder, and a flawless ending ... Will keep you sleepless for three nights straight and leave you grasping for another book that can sustain that high.” — Entertainment Weekly (A rating)

Volcanically sexy, sizzingly smart, plenty bloody and just plain irresistible." —USA Today (4 stars)
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 villa—a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants—life 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 Frances’s life—or, 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, and here she has delivered again. A love story, a tension-filled crime story, and a beautifully atmospheric portrait of a fascinating time and place, The Paying Guests is Sarah Waters’s finest achievement yet.

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