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Zusatztext Waters is not simply one of our best historical novelists! but one of our best novelists . . . sooner or later! she's going to be given the Booker. If you haven't already! start reading her now! and be one step ahead of the crowd Informationen zum Autor Sarah Waters was born in Wales. She has won a Betty Trask Award! the Somerset Maugham Award and her books have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. Tipping the Velvet ! Affinity! Fingersmith and The Night Watch have been adapted for television. Sarah Waters has been named Author of the Year four times: by the British Book Awards! the Booksellers' Association! Waterstone's Booksellers and the Stonewall Awards. She lives in London. She was awarded an OBE in 2019. Klappentext 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. For 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. And as passions mount and frustration gathers! no one can foresee just how far-reaching! and how devastating! the disturbances will be. This is vintage Sarah Waters: beautifully described with excruciating tension! real tenderness! believable characters! and surprises. It is above all! a wonderful! compelling story. The extraordinary bestselling author, who wrote three astonishing Victorian novels before moving to the 1940s with The Night Watch and The Little Stranger , now turns to the 1920s. Zusammenfassung 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. For 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. And as passions mount and frustration gathers! no one can foresee just how far-reaching! and how devastating! the disturbances will be. This is vintage Sarah Waters: beautifully described with excruciating tension! real tenderness! believable characters! and surprises. It is above all! a wonderful! compelling story. ...
