num_pages: 184
description: Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating spinsterhood is renewed.
language: English
title: Hotel du Lac
titlecomplete: Hotel du Lac
characters: Mme de Bonneuil, Philip Neville, Edith Hope, Geoffrey Long, Penelope Milne, M. Huber, Monica, Iris Pusey, David Simmonds, Jennifer Pusey
genres: Classics, British Literature, Female Authors, Novels, Romance, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 21277
places: Switzerland
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Triad/Panther Books