num_pages: 184
description: 
  'The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing, the respected patrons of an earlier era'
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 humilitiating spinsterhood is renewed.
language: English
title: Hotel du Lac
titlecomplete: Hotel du Lac
characters: Iris Pusey, Mme de Bonneuil, Edith Hope, Geoffrey Long, David Simmonds, Monica, Penelope Milne, Philip Neville, M. Huber, Jennifer Pusey
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Female Authors, Romance, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 21278
places: Switzerland
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd