Description
Edith Hope, a successful romance novelist, finds her own life unraveling into the dramatic plots she creates, prompting her friends to send her to the serene Hotel du Lac in Switzerland. There, amidst the elegant tranquility, she observes the hotel's peculiar guests and secretly writes unsent letters to a married lover she's meant to be forgetting. Despite her resolve to remain an observer, a sophisticated man at the hotel becomes convinced they are destined to help each other. Anita Brookner masterfully explores themes of love, loneliness, and self-deception with her signature wry wit and graceful prose, creating a potent and subtly subversive narrative.
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paperback
Vintage
Published Oct 3, 1995
196 pages
ISBN: 9780679759324
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First Published
1984
Language
eng
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