![]() ![]() Ludo Myers is a struggling writer who rescues Mrs Palfrey and becomes, through a series of misunderstandings, her grandson “Desmond”.Īlthough this is, at times, a heartbreaking novel, striking many sombre chords, some of it teeters on the edge of sit- or romcom, as Mrs Palfrey strives to do the right thing and also to be true to herself. ![]() When she subjects the newest resident of the Claremont to that classic geriatric indignity, a fall, the upshot is not humiliation, but romance. ![]() But Taylor, though ruthlessly observant, also delights in exploring the trivial banalities of everyday life. The Claremont symbolises a class and a way of life heading for the dustbin of history. It’s the 1960s, and a new society is taking shape. The hotel becomes a genteel antechamber to oblivion, its spectral inhabitants representative figures from postwar English life. ![]()
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