The Paying Guests by Sarah Walters
'The Paying Guests' is set in 1922 in South London, Mrs Wray and her daughter Frances have recently acquired lodgers, Mr and Mrs Baker, with them they bring modern ideals and materials, unlike anything Frances and her mother have seen. Tensions grow between the newly married couple as Frances and Mrs Baker's, Lilian's, relationship grows beyond friendship into something far more intimate. Frances and Lilian dream of a different future together and form plans of how they would get there, until a terrible accident takes place, and they're both thrown into the world of trails, judges, and murder, as the future they planned for escapes the pair. To be honest, this is the only Sarah Walters book I've ever read, despite the fact she's praised so often, and I only read it because I had to for my English A-Level. Saying this, I don't think I'll be rushing to buy another one of her books. So you would think the actual plot of this novel would be thri