‘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. Having heard plenty of positive recommendations for this book, the penultimate novel to be written by Elizabeth Taylor, I must admit I was expecting something a.

Then one day Mrs Palfrey strikes up an unlikely friendship with an impoverished young writer, Ludo, who sees her as inspiration for his novel. On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will. Together, upper lips stiffened, they fight off their twin enemies: boredom and the Grim Reaper. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor. Fifteen-year-old Angel is confident that she will become a famous author when she writes her first masterpiece. Her fellow residents are magnificently eccentric and endlessly curious, living off crumbs of affection and snippets of gossip. Other audiobooks by Elizabeth Taylor ANGEL. On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Named by the Guardian as one of ‘the 100 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)

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