Today's Featured Book:
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
by Elizabeth Taylor
Genre: Fiction
Published: 1971
Page Count: 205 pages
Summary:
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 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.
Then one day Mrs Palfrey strikes up an unlikely friendship with an impoverished young writer, Ludo, who sees her as inspiration for his novel.
Mrs Palfrey first came to the Claremont Hotel on a Sunday afternoon in January. Rain had closed in over London, and her taxi sloshed along the almost deserted Cromwell Road, past one cavernous porch after another, the driver going slowly and poking his head out into the wet, for the hotel was not known to him. This discovery, that he did not know, had a little disconcerted Mrs Palfrey, for she did not know it either, and began to wonder what she was coming to. She tried to banish terror from her heart. She was alarmed at the threat of her own depression.
Taylor, Elizabeth. Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont: A Virago Modern Classic, p. 1. Kindle Edition.
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‘You need a hot bath,’ Mrs de Salis said. ‘And order a hot whisky and lemon to be sent up.’
‘Oh, no!’ Mrs Palfrey said. ‘I’ll have the bath, though, if the water’s still all right.’
She never ordered anything to be sent to her room. There was an extra charge for it.
Taylor, Elizabeth. Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont: A Virago Modern Classic, 56%. Kindle Edition.
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June 27th - July 3rd - Have you ever purchased the wrong book by accident? If so, what did you do next? Did you return the book, keep it, pass it on to another reader, or donate it? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer)
I bought what turned out to be one of my favorite books ever that way---I bought Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig for a class I was taking as an undergraduate at University of Houston, Educational Philosophy. The class did not make, but I had already started reading the book and I was hooked.
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Oh nice! I can't recall ever buying the "wrong" book, but I think if I did, I probably returned it and went to get the "right" one. Lol.
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I take it this was written by the Elizabeth Taylor. I've never heard of it before nor seen the movie. I must do something about that on both scores.
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