Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont
A Virago Modern Classic
$24.52
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
24 May 2006
Summary
‘Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont is, for me, her masterpiece’ - Robert McCrum, Guardian, ‘The Best 100 Novels’
‘An author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth’ - SARAH WATERS
‘Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabeth Bowen - soul-sisters all’ ANNE TYLER
On 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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844083213 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844083217 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Bailey |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 24 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 170g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 128mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
She’s a magnificent and underrated mid-20th-century writer, the missing link between Jane Austen and John Updike– David Baddiel , Independent
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 … Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont is, for me, her masterpiece - Guardian ‘the best 100 novels’
Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen - soul-sisters allElizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth. As a reader, I have found huge pleasure in returning to Taylor’s novels and short stories many times over. As a writer I’ve returned to her too - in awe of her achievements, and trying to work out how she does itShe’s a magnificent and underrated mid-20th-century writer, the missing link between Jane Austen and John Updike - IndependentAbout The Author
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975) is increasingly recognised as one of the best British writers of the twentieth century. She wrote her first book, At Mrs Lippincote’s, during the war while her husband was in the Royal Air Force, and this was followed by eleven further novels and a children’s book, Mossy Trotter. Her acclaimed short stories appeared in publications including Vogue, the New Yorker and Harper’s Bazaar.
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