Book guide
The Paying Guests
A lodger’s arrival turns survival into scandal.
Genre and trope pairingsHistoricalLGBTQ+HistoricalWar storyHistoricalClass divideLiteraryTragic love storyLiteraryLGBTQ+LiterarySocial commentaryRomanceSlow burnRomanceForbidden romanceQueer RomanceSlow burnQueer RomanceForbidden romanceQueer RomanceLGBTQ+CrimeBetrayal
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About The Paying Guests
In 1922 south London, Frances Wray and her widowed mother take in lodgers to preserve their declining household after the Great War. When Frances becomes drawn to Lilian Barber, passion leads to danger, crime, and a devastating moral crisis.
Reading signals
- Spice
- High
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Balanced
Content warnings
- queerphobia
- abortion
- miscarriage
- death
- gore
- sexual content
- medical content
- murder
- domestic abuse
- blood
