A very long novel with two story arcs set in a post WWI London suburb: British society is changing and Frances Wray & her mother are forced to take a young married couple into their home, euphemistically known as ‘paying guests,’ because lodgers would be too common to live in a home on Champion Hill. The Wrays live in genteel poverty with Frances duty-bound to her (helpless) mother, living a life of constant drudgery, all dreams set aside. Enter the young couple. There is a semi-slow build which is wonderfully seductively drawn out, “forget Fifty Shades of Grey, this novel is one of the most sensual you will ever read and all without sacrificing either good taste or a “G” rating” [NPR]. With a lesbian relationship center stage, a love story and crime drama develop. So well written, this IS literary fiction at its best and it will keep you reading and guessing until the very end.
Highly recommend for the mature and discriminating reader.
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