Sarah Waters is a modern classic, “an author so brilliant that readers are willing to believe her every word” (Daily Mail). The Financial Times wrote about this novel: “With her previous books, three of which were shortlisted for the Booker, Sarah Waters has set the quality bar very high. And even against such a background, “Dear Guests” is the apotheosis of her talent.” So, meet Frances Ray and her mother. In London, which had not yet recovered from the Great War, they were left completely alone in a large, decaying house: their father and brothers were no longer alive, and funds did not allow them to keep servants. Desperate, Francis and Mrs. Ray rent out half the house to complete strangers - the young Barber couple, Leonard and Liliana, from the “clerk class”. And the whole life of the Ray family changes, but not at all in the way they expected. “This is a book about an old cranky boiler, porcelain cups and rotten floorboards. This is a book about love and passion, shaking to the core and driving you crazy. And this is also a real detective story, with a corpse, police and building up the atmosphere in the spirit of Dostoevsky" (Fem_books). For the first time in Russian.