TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waters,Sarah
TI  - The paying guests
SN  - 9780349004600 (pbk.) :
AV  - PR6073.A828 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Virago
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - General
N1  - Originally published: 2014
N2  - There came the splash of water and the rub of heels as Mrs Barber stepped into the tub. After that there was a silence, broken only by the occasional echoey plink of drips from the tap. Frances had been picturing her lodgers in purely mercenary terms - as something like two great waddling shillings. But this, she thought, was what it really meant to have paying guests: this odd, unintimate proximity, this rather peeled-back moment, where the only thing between herself and a naked Mrs Barber was a few feet of kitchen and a thin scullery door. An image sprang into her head: that round flesh, crimsoning in the heat
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