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The Paying Guests is a 2014 novel by Welsh author Sarah Waters.It was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction [1] and named "Fiction Book of the Year" by The Sunday Times who said that "this novel magnificently confirms Sarah Waters' status as an unsurpassed fictional recorder of vanished eras and hidden lives."
Gissing was commissioned to write The Paying Guest by Cassell, as part of their Pocket Library series. [2] Gissing wrote the manuscript in the first half of July 1895. [3] It was one of three one-volume works by Gissing published in 1895, the other two being Eve's Ransom and Sleeping Fires; the latter of these was published in Unwin's Autonym Library series.
Paying Guests is a 1929 comedy novel by the British writer E.F. Benson, best known as the author of the Mapp and Lucia series. [1] [2] The story takes place at Wentworth, a boarding house in the fictional resort town of Bolton Spa.
Sarah Waters was born in Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales, in 1966.She later moved to Middlesbrough, England, when she was eight years old.She grew up in a family that included her father Ron, mother Mary, and a "much older" sister. [2]
2 Plot summary. 3 Publication history and reception. ... One of the novels that Sarah Waters read as background for her 2014 novel The Paying Guests was If Winter ...
Now, these all-encompassing extravaganzas are putting an increasing financial strain on guests, all in the name of one “special day.” ... Now, guests are paying, too. Essay by Leah Asmelash ...
"The Paying Guests" "Squatter" "Lend Me Your Light" "Exercisers" "Swimming Lessons" Awards. 1983 First Prize, Hart House Literary Contest for "One Sunday" (short story)
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