Hotel du Lac
Author: Brookner, Anita
ISBN: 9780140147476
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 1994
Pages: 192
Dimensions: 197mm x 132mm x 13mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Reissue of Brookner's best-known and bestselling Man Booker Prize-winning novel
'The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing, the respected patrons of an earlier era'
Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating loneliness is renewed . . .
ISBN: 9780140147476
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 1994
Pages: 192
Dimensions: 197mm x 132mm x 13mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Reissue of Brookner's best-known and bestselling Man Booker Prize-winning novel
'The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing, the respected patrons of an earlier era'
Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating loneliness is renewed . . .
