A review by meadowbat
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

5.0

Honestly, I was completely happy reading about early 20th century chores as narrated by Sarah Waters. But then the novel took a turn for the sexy (no surprise there) and then it went super dark. Sarah Waters can do it all, while crafting incredibly complex, realistic characters--in this case two women who are good and brave, but not quite as good and brave as they need to be, and that's the real horror, because it's impossible not to feel how viciously we're all tossed about by circumstance.