{"product_id":"mrs-palfrey-at-the-claremont-9781844083213","title":"Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont\u003c\/i\u003e is, for me, her masterpiece' - Robert McCrum, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, 'The Best 100 Novels'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth' - SARAH WATERS \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabath Bowen - soul-sisters all' ANNE TYLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen one day Mrs Palfrey strikes up an unlikely friendship with an impoverished young writer, Ludo, who sees her as inspiration for his novel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\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 \u003ci\u003e'the 100 best novels'\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-338103\"\u003eElizabeth Taylor\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Virago Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.84h x 5.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781844083213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1844083217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC004000\"\u003eClassics\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Taylor (1912-75) is increasingly being recognised as one of the best writers of the twentieth century. She wrote her first book, \u003ci\u003eAt Mrs Lippincote's\u003c\/i\u003e, during the war, and this was followed by eleven further novels and a children's book, \u003ci\u003eMossy Trotter\u003c\/i\u003e. Her short stories appeared in Vogue, the New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar. Rosamond Lehmann considered her writing 'sophisticated, sensitive and brilliantly amusing, with a kind of stripped, piercing feminine wit', and Kingsley Amis regarded her as 'one of the best English novelists born in this century'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Virago Press (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42699403165933,"sku":"9781844083213","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_5594a0a6-f70d-44fc-a1ff-dcc20d8730ed.jpg?v=1649917343","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/mrs-palfrey-at-the-claremont-9781844083213","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}