Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

Elizabeth Taylor, 1912-1975

Book - 2021

"On a rainy Sunday afternoon in January the recently widowed Mrs. Palfrey moves to the Claremont Hotel in South Kensington. "If it's not nice, I needn't stay," she promises herself, as she settles into this haven for the genteel and the decayed. "Three elderly widows and one old man who seemed to dislike female company and seldom got any other kind" serve for her fellow residents, and there is the staff, too, and they are one and all lonely. What is Mrs. Palfrey to do with herself now that she has all the time in the world? Go for a walk. Go to the museum. Go to the end of the block. Well, she does have her grandson who works at the British Museum, and he is sure to visit any day. Mrs Palfrey prides hersel...f on having always known "the right thing to do," but in this new situation she discovers that resource is much reduced. Before she knows it, in fact, she tries something else. Elizabeth Taylor's final and most popular novel is as unsparing as it is, ultimately, heartbreaking"--

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Subjects
Genres
Novels
Published
New York, NY : New York Review of Books 2021.
Language
English
Main Author
Elizabeth Taylor, 1912-1975 (author)
Other Authors
Michael Hofmann, 1957 August 25- (writer of introduction)
Physical Description
xiv, 193 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN
9781681375649
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