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The Paying Guests

The Paying Guests
Sarah Waters

The Paying Guests is a 2014 novel by Welsh author Sarah Waters. It was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 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."

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“Some things are so frightful that a bit of madness is the only sane response. You know that, don’t you?”

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“I barely knew I had skin before I met you.”

Sarah Waters book The Paying Guests

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