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Loved it. I would rate this a 4.5 if I could.
Gave it five stars because it was an intense, unforgettable read. But I loved The Paying Guests much more. The one way this novel fell down for me was in the romance between Maud and Sue. I felt like it was much more a novel about tricky mother-daughter relationships than about the heat and chemistry between the two women, which I never really felt. The Paying Guests had a central lesbian relationship that felt warmer and more earthy, although it was still riddled with deception, and self-decept
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With a Dickensian theme, the story of a young girl whose first occupation is as a pickpocket, Waters really does relationships beautifully and keeps you guessing every time she comes to a bump in the road.
Feb 02, 2011
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