Sarah Waters – författare

London 1922. Kriget har vänt upp och ner på allt och svept med sig pojkar och män. De kvinnor som nu måste leva vidare gör det i en helt ny värld – som också bjuder nya friheter …

I ett stort hus i den burgna Londonförorten Camberwell bor Frances Wray med sin mor, mrs Wray. Deras liv har förändrats drastiskt. Familjens män har stupat och för att klara hyran blir mor och dotter nu tvungna att ta in hyresgäster. Ett ungt par ur den lägre tjänstemannaklassen, Lilian och Leonard Barber, flyttar in. In kommer den nya världen och dess sociala spänningar. Och när Frances, som är en modern kvinna med moderna idéer om kärlek, kommer allt närmare Lilian, påbörjas ett kammarspel som ska explodera med oförutsedda konsekvenser som följd.

Sarah Waters är tillbaka med en mästerlig roman om passion, svartsjuka och brott i tjugotalets London. Hyresgästerna är en bladvändare av en världsförfattare i sitt absoluta esse.Sarah Waters (född 1966) är författare till sex historiska romaner och debuterade 1998 med Kyssa sammet. De senaste två böckerna, Nattvakten och Främlingen i huset, är nu åter aktuella i pocket. Waters har nominerats till Bookerpriset tre gånger. Samtliga romaner finns utgivna på svenska av Natur & Kultur.

"Precis som i alla Waters romaner kommer du att vara fast efter en enda sida … Hyresgästerna är kronan på verket för hennes begåvning."FINANCIAL TIMES

"Waters, en författare på höjden av sin förmåga, spinner en fascinerande berättelse om klass, sexualitet och konsekvenserna av en passionerad kärleksaffär. Romanens andra del är så enastående oförutsägbar och så gastkramande nervig att den håller läsaren i ovisshet intill det allra sista stycket."THE BOOKSELLER

Precis som i alla Waters romaner kommer du att vara fast efter en enda sida … Hyresgästerna är kronan på verket för hennes begåvning

''Sarah Waters'' masterly novel is gripping, confident, unnerving and supremely entertaining'' Hilary Mantel

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, its owners - mother, son and daughter - struggling to keep pace with a changing society. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become entwined with his.

''The #1 book of the year . . . several sleepless nights are guaranteed'' Stephen King

''Chilling . . . a meditation on the nature of the British and class, and how things are rarely what they seem'' Kate Mosse

''Not only is it tremendously rich, it''s an absolute treat to read - the kind of thing you desperately want to finish and then feel bereft when you do'' Bridget Collins

''Waters has determined to scare the pants off her rightly devoted audience. She succeeds unquivocally'' Erica Wagner, The Times

''A brilliantly observed story, verging on the comedy, about Britain on the cusp of modern age'' Independent on Sunday

''A page-turning melodrama and a fascinating portrait of London on the verge of great change'' Guardian

It is 1922, and in a hushed south London villa life is about to be transformed, as genteel widow Mrs Wray and her discontented daughter Frances are obliged to take in lodgers. Lilian and Leonard Barber, a modern young couple of the ''clerk class'', bring with them gramophone music, colour, fun - and dangerous desires. The most ordinary of lives, it seems, can explode into passion and drama... A love story that is also a crime story, this is vintage Sarah Waters.

''Another wild ride of a novel... magnetic storytelling'' Tracy Chevalier, Observer

''You will be hooked within a page'' Charlotte Mendelson, Financial Times

''Sumptuous... the writing is impeccable. A joy in every respect'' New Statesman

''An unsurpassed fictional recorder of vanished eras and hidden lives'' Sunday Times

From an award-winning author, Fingersmith is an extraordinary, ingenious tale of fraud, insanity and secrets

London 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths - under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her ''family''. But from the moment Sue draws breath, her fate is linked to that of another orphan growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away.

''A page turning thriller while managing to be a tender love story'' Adam Kay

''Intensely atmospheric, impeccably paced, and cunningly structured'' Mail on Sunday

''A chilling, ingenious erotic thriller - unputdownable'' Sunday Express

''Long, dark, twisted and satisfying... An unforgettable experience'' Julie Myerson, Guardian

An eerily brilliant and spooky tale of spiritualism and deception

From the oyster huts of Whitstable to the music halls of Victorian London, Tipping the Velvet is the glorious first novel from this much-loved author

A saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical romance, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King - oyster girl turned music-hall star turned rent boy turned East End ''tom''.

''Erotic and absorbing... Written with startling power'' New York Times Book Review

''An unstoppable read, a sexy and picaresque romp through the lesbian and queer demi-monde of the roaries Nineties'' Independent on Sunday

''Waters is an extremely confident writer, combining precise, sensuous descriptions with irony and wit'' Observer

The number one bestseller, a tender and tragic story set against the turbulence of wartime London

The Night Watch us the extraordinary story of four Londoners: Kay, who wanders the streets in mannish clothes, restless and searching... Helen, who harbours a troubling secret... Viv, a glamour girl, recklessly loyal to her soldier lover... and Duncan, an apparent innocent, struggling with demons of his own.

Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit liaisons and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, this is an astonishing novel.

''Burns with a slow but scorching intensity'' Mark Bostridge, Independent on Sunday

''Beautifully written, deeply moving and utterly engrossing'' Elle

''Waters is an author to cherish, and this is probably her finest achievement yet'' Justine Jordan, Guardian

''Terrific narrative tension'' Daily Mail