Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont: A Virago Modern Classic
Author(s): Elizabeth Taylor
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize On a rainy Sunday afternoon, Mrs Palfrey, recently widowed, arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are a mixed bunch - magnificently flawed and eccentric - living off crumbs of affection and an obsessive interest in the relentless round of hotel meals. Together, upper lips stiffened, they fight off their twin enemies: boredom and the Grim Reaper. And then one day, Mrs Palfrey encounters the hadsome young writer Ludo, and an unlikely friendship is formed . . .
General Information
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- : Little Brown
- : Virago
- : 0.17
- : 01 May 2006
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Elizabeth Taylor
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 208
- : FC
More About The Product
*A humorous and compassionate look at the blossoming friendship between an old woman and a young man.
Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975) was born and educated in Reading. After leaving school she worked as a governess and later in a library. She lived much of her married life in the village of Penn in Buckinghamshire. In 1984 ANGEL was selected by the Book Marketing Council's 'Best Novels of Our Time'.
