The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
„ The Paying Guests” is another marvelous novel by Sarah Waters. It involves a lesbian love affair, but at it’s root it’s a drama and a social satire set in after first World War times, mainly 1922. It is a drama and a social satire, because after the first World War when women found themselves without men, their fathers, brothers or husbands, in trying to keep their houses, their social status, their freedom and their fortune, when new social classes emerge. It’s Frances’s case, her family is bourgeois and her brothers dies in during the war, while her father died of a heart attack and left her and her mother in debt and in the need to find lodgers at Champion’s Hill. This is when she meets Lilian and her husband Leonard, Mrs. And Mr. Barber who will be the future lodgers in her home. She finds her home somehow invaded by gay strangers, everything changes and yet still nothing, while Frances is still a spinster trapped into her mother’s home, taking care of her and of it, as ...