She invites Frances to a family party and gives Frances a makeover. Frances begins to develop feelings for Lilian, and Lilian, too, begins to value Frances’s friendship. Frances quickly takes a liking to Lilian, however. Leonard’s personality sometimes grates on her, but she does not dislike him. The arrival of the Barbers marks a strange change in Frances’s life, which is, at first, difficult to adjust to. Frances maintains a close friendship with Christina, who has moved on to a steady relationship with a woman named Stevie. Frances is the sole housekeeper and has given up the promise of a free life with her secret girlfriend Christina for a domestic life of household chores and taking care of her aging mother. Wray had mismanaged the family wealth, leaving them with next to nothing upon his death. Emily Wray, have decided to take in lodgers, Lilian and Leonard Barber, to help cover their expenses. In interviews, Waters has said that she was inspired to write about lower class people in 1920s England after reading writers, such as Virginia Woolf, who generally did not focus on lower class people.Īt the beginning of the novel, Frances Wray and her mother, Mrs. Waters tells the story in the third person from the viewpoint of the protagonist. The novel’s themes include the strictures of class, the political construction of a judicial system, and the subjectivity of women.
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