16, 2014 An exquisitely tuned exploration of class in post-Edwardian Britainwith really hot sex. After that there was a silence, broken only by the occasional echoey. Sarah was awarded an OBE in 2019 for services to literature in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. THE PAYING GUESTS by Sarah Waters RELEASE DATE: Sept. There came the splash of water and the rub of heels as Mrs Barber stepped into the tub. Sarah has been named Author of the Year four times: by the British Book Awards, the Booksellers’ Association, Waterstones Booksellers Stonewall’s Writer of the Decade in 2015 Diva Magazine Author of the Year Award and The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in 2017, which is given in recognition of a writer’s entire body of work. The novel opens during a self-conscious Sunday afternoon in May as she and her mother wait for the married couple who are to be the paying guests. Her novels have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction and she has won the Betty Trask Award the Somerset Maugham Award The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award the South Bank Show Award for Literature and the CWA Historical Dagger. She is the author of six novels, Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith, The Night Watch and The Little Stranger, which have been adapted for stage, television and feature film in the UK and US, and The Paying Guests.
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