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Hotel du Lac

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780140147476

  • Length: 192  Pages

  • Dimensions: 201mm x 13mm x 132mm

  • Weight: 142g

  • RRP: £8.99

Hotel du Lac

Winner of the Booker Prize

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

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780140147476

  • Length: 192  Pages

  • Dimensions: 201mm x 13mm x 132mm

  • Weight: 142g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • A classic . . . a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now

    Spectator

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

    The Times

  • Hotel du Lac is written with a beautiful grave formality, and it catches at the heart

    Observer

  • She is one of the great writers of contemporary fiction

    Literary Review

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About the Author

Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. Hotel du Lac won the 1984 Booker Prize. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.

Anita Brookner

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