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Wowed by Waters
Book Review “The Paying Guests” by Sarah Waters
This is one of those books that get under the skin of the characters in just a few lines, that you read just for the pleasure of the words. It moves at a leisurely pace yet it doesn’t feel slow. We get to know learn the characters gradually through brief yet incise thumbnail sketches. This for example: “His eyes were the blue of Cornish china, his fairish hair sat close to his scalp in tight little lamb-like curls.” The atmosphere and the descriptions are just wonderful. The reader...Read More
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Bethany Askew is the author of eight novels:
The Time Before, The World Within, Out of Step, Counting the Days, Poppy’s Seed, Three Extraordinary Years,The Two Saras and I know you, Don’t I?
She has also written a short story, The Night of the Storm, and she writes poetry.
Two more women’s fiction books have been accepted for publication in 2020 and 2021 respectively and she is currently working on a new novel.
In her spare time she enjoys reading, music, theatre, walking, Pilates, dancing and voluntary work.
Bethany is married and lives in Somerset.
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