{"product_id":"mrs-palfrey-at-the-claremont-9781844083213","title":"Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed by the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e as one of 'the 100 best novels, ' and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, \u003ci\u003eMrs Palfrey At The Claremont\u003c\/i\u003e is a humorous and compassionate look at friendship between an old woman and a young man from a 'magnificent...writer, the missing link between Jane Austen and John Updike' (David Baddiel\u003ci\u003e, Independent\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen one day Mrs Palfrey strikes up an unlikely friendship with an impoverished young writer, Ludo, who sees her as inspiration for his novel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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' -Robert McCrum \u003ci\u003e'the 100 best novels'\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Virago Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781844083213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.84h x 5.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Elizabeth Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36669622026396,"sku":"9781844083213","price":11.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_90e35ce4-8d14-4a51-98a5-ba469bcaf04c.jpg?v=1603920623","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mrs-palfrey-at-the-claremont-9781844083213","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}