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Title: MRS PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT
A VIRAGO MODERN CLASSIC
By: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Bailey
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £7.49


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ISBN 10: 0748131000
ISBN 13: 9780748131006
Publisher: LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP
Pub. date: 7 July, 2011
Edition: Digital original
Series: VMC
Description: *A humorous and compassionate look at the blossoming friendship between an old woman and a young man.
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
Returns: Non-returnable
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