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Synopsis

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 spinsterhood is renewed ...

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Customer Review: 11 September 2002

Reviewer: A reader from the USA

The author uses the near-solitude of a hotel in the off-season to convey the state of mind of a woman at a crossroads. If, like the heroine, you need a room of your own in which to create, you will relate to this book. A quiet masterpiece, beautifully capturing things unsaid about writing, observing, and being a woman

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"A classic...a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now"
The Spectator

"A smashing love story. It is very romantic. It is also humorous, witty, touching and formidably clever"
The Times

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