{"product_id":"mrs-palfrey-at-the-claremont","title":"Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Taylor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTitle:\u003c\/b\u003e Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 205\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2006-04-06\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e 'Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont is, for me, her masterpiece' - Robert McCrum, Guardian, 'The Best 100 Novels'\u003cbr\u003e'An author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth' - SARAH WATERS\u003cbr\u003e'Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabath Bowen - soul-sisters all' ANNE TYLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are magnificently eccentric and endlessly curious, living off crumbs of affection and snippets of gossip. Together, upper lips stiffened, they fight off their twin enemies: boredom and the Grim Reaper.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen one day Mrs Palfrey strikes up an unlikely friendship with an impoverished young writer, Ludo, who sees her as inspiration for his novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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 . . . Much of the reader's joy lies in the exquisite subtlety in Taylor's depiction of all the relationships, the sharp brevity of her wit, and the apparently effortless way the plot unfolds' -Robert McCrum 'the 100 best novels', Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781844083213\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e Height: 7.75 Inches, Length: 5 Inches, Weight: 0.3747858454 Pounds, Width: 0.5 Inches\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elizabeth Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51863436624179,"sku":"9781844083213","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/3636\/7411\/files\/15645373482844.jpg?v=1754196878","url":"https:\/\/bookabaloo.com\/products\/mrs-palfrey-at-the-claremont","provider":"Bookabaloo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}