Having gotten into audiobooks only in the last couple of years, I came to realize that a skilled narrator makes a giant difference in the experience of a novel. Before choosing my next audiobook I did some google searching for audiobook awards and apparently this audiobok's narrator, Juliet Stevenson, won some sort of best narration of 2014 award for this novel. And it SHOWS. She was wonderful, and I do think that this book is a bit long if I had read it on paper, but with the narration it was marvelous and I didn't want it to end.

The story about a woman and her mother in post WWI London who need to take on boarders in their house due to circumstances after said war, the guests turn out to be quite a twosome. There's so much at play in these pages, I feel I could parse so many parts. I will say the cynic in me was revealed by the end; I almost shamed myself when it arrived thinking I knew exactly what would happen. Waters certainly surprised me in how her characters' story closed. I thoroughly enjoyed this literary thriller, and do look forward to reading more Waters (I also liked her horror novel The Little Stranger).