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Literary Fiction · MelancholicA romance writer is sent to a quiet Swiss hotel after a social scandal
Hotel du Lac
1984184 pagesEasy readSlow pace
★ Booker Prize, 1984
A woman writer in a quiet Swiss hotel
Edith Hope is a writer of romantic fiction who is sent to the Hotel du Lac in Switzerland after an embarrassing incident in England. At the hotel she befriends the other guests and reconsiders the choices she has made. It won the 1984 Booker Prize and was adapted as a 1986 BBC film.
More about this book
Who
Edith Hope and the guests of the hotel.
World
A hotel by Lake Geneva, in the off-season.
What makes it different
It is a short, quiet novel with a precise social focus.
Feel
Restrained and wry.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- Hotel du LacWikipedia