![]() ![]() It begins as a meticulously observed comedy of awkward manners told from the point of view of Frances, a tightly wound, shabby-genteel woman in her late 20s who lives with her mother in a big house in a London suburb. With her latest, "The Paying Guests," Waters turns to the 1920s and delivers what feels like three novels for the price of one. After two more twisty, picaresque novels set during that era, she decamped to the 20th century, with "The Night Watch" and "The Little Stranger," brooding tales set in the straitened and unsettled Britain just after World War II the latter is one of the best literary ghost stories of the past 50 years. ![]() All the way back in 1998, Sarah Waters announced her roguish intentions toward the historical novel with her first book, "Tipping the Velvet," a romp about a cross-dressing lesbian stage performer, titled after the Victorian slang term for cunnilingus. ![]()
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