![]() ![]() 'Elizabeth Taylor's exquisitely drawn character study of eccentricity in old age is a sharp and witty portrait of genteel postwar English life facing the changes taking shape in the 60s. Then one day Mrs Palfrey strikes up an unlikely friendship with an impoverished young writer, Ludo, who sees her as inspiration for his novel. Together, upper lips stiffened, they fight off their twin enemies: boredom and the Grim Reaper. ![]() Her fellow residents are magnificently eccentric and endlessly curious, living off crumbs of affection and snippets of gossip. On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor: 9781681375649 : Books. 'Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabath Bowen - soul-sisters all' ANNE TYLER A blackly humorous story of loneliness, deception, and life in old age by one of the most accomplished novelists of the twentieth century. ![]() 'An author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth' - SARAH WATERS 'Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont is, for me, her masterpiece' - Robert McCrum, Guardian, 'The Best 100 Novels' ![]()
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