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_c£7.99
040 _aStDuBDS
050 4 _aPR6073.A828
072 7 _aGNR
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100 1 _aWaters, Sarah,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe paying guests /
_cSarah Waters.
260 _aLondon :
_bVirago,
_c2015.
264 _aLondon
_bVirago
_c2015
300 _a599 pages ;
_c20 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
500 _aOriginally published: 2014.
520 8 _aThere 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.
651 0 _aGreat Britain
655 7 _aGeneral.
999 _c59004
_d59004