The paying guests / Sarah Waters.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Virago 2014Description: 566 pages ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780349004365 (hbk.) :
- 9780349004594 (ePub ebook) :
- 823.92 WAT
- PR6073.A828
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 823.92 WAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 216546 |
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.