![]() ![]() ![]() Named by the Guardian as one of 'the best novels,' and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont is a humorous and compassionate look at friendship between an old woman and a young man from a 'magnificent writer, the missing link between Jane Austen and John Updike' (David Baddiel, Independent)/5(). Fate brings them together after she has an accident outside his basement flat. Palfrey strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer, Ludovic Meyer. 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 : Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, Mrs. Palfrey, recently widowed, arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. "On a rainy Sunday afternoon in January, Mrs. ![]() Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont was named by the Guardian as one of ‘the best novels,‘ and shortlisted for the Booker Prize in It is a humorous and compassionate look at friendship between an old woman and a young man at a time. by Taylor, ElizabethĪn excellent novel! Mrs Palfrey is an ageing widow who has enough money left to avoid the disgrace of a nursing home: she can take a room at the Claremont, a formerly respectable residential hotel located on a thoroughfare in London/5(43). ![]()
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