num_pages: 246
description: From the author of the international bestseller Birdsong, comes a haunting historical novel of passion, loss, and courage set in France between the two world wars. This Vintage Original edition marks its first appearance in the United States.On a rainy night in the 1930s, Anne Louvet appears at the run-down Hotel du Lion d'Or in the village of Janvilliers.  She is seeking a job and a new life, one far removed from the awful injustices of her past. As Anne embarks on a torrential love affair with a married veteran of the Great War, The Girl at the Lion d'Or fashions an unbreakable spell of narrative and atmosphere that evokes French masters from Flaubert to Renoir.    
language: English
title: The Girl at the Lion d'Or
titlecomplete: The Girl at the Lion d'Or
characters: Charles Hartmann, Christine Hartmann, Anne Louvet
genres: Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, War, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, France
ratings_count: 6995
places: France
publisher: Vintage