Sarah Walters, the acclaimed author of Tipping The Velvet and Fingersmith will be discussing her sixth novel, The Paying Guests.
Set in Twenties London, it focuses on 26-year-old Frances and her widowed mother, who take in lodgers to make ends meet. When Leonard and Lillian Barber move in, Frances begins a friendship that threatens to disrupt the household in ways they never could imagine.
The Bookseller has called Waters’ latest novel a “gripping tale of class, sex and the consequences of a passionate affair” from a writer “indisputably at the top of her game”.
An exclusive preview copy of The Paying Guests will be sent to you before the event, three weeks ahead of its official publication, so you’ll be ready with your questions.
On the night, Sarah will read an excerpt of her new book, followed by an audience Q&A, and you’ll get the chance to have your hardback copy, available to collect on the night, signed by the author.
The venue, Holborn’s chic Rosewood London hotel, is particularly apt: it was formerly the HQ of Pearl Assurance Company, the building where Leonard works in The Paying Guests.
