num_pages: 206
description: Librarian Note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found hereOn 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. Then one day Mrs. Palfrey strikes up an unexpected friendship with Ludo, a handsome young writer, and learns that even the old can fall in love.
language: English
title: Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
titlecomplete: Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
characters: Laura Palfrey
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Adult Fiction, British Literature, Modern Classics, Literary Fiction, Female Authors, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 8809
places: London, England
awards: awardedAt: 31564800000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: Virago