6/12/2023 0 Comments Hotel du lac author![]() ![]() ![]() Edith tears up the letter, books the next flight to London, and sends a telegram to David saying “Returning”. While going to post the letter, she sees Mr Neville leaving Jennifer’s room, presumably after a night-time liaison. She writes David a letter, explaining that she loves him but will never see him again. Depressed and demoralised, Edith decides to accept his proposal. Edith meets Mr Neville, a hard-headed businessman who offers to marry her, sneering at her romantic notions and persuading her that marriage will improve her social status. Edith reflects on her relationship with David, whom she loves, and recent, disastrous attempts to marry a dull, well-meaning neighbour. In a series of letters composed to her married lover David, she describes the fellow inhabitants of the hotel: Mrs Pusey, a wealthy, self-satisfied widow and her vacuous daughter Jennifer Madame de Bonneuil, an elderly woman exiled to the hotel by her neglectful son and Monica, an unhappily married society wife with an eating disorder. ![]() After jilting her fiancé at the altar, Miss Edith Hope, a middle-aged Englishwoman and writer of romance novels, takes a holiday at a hotel near Lake Geneva. What it’s about: Geneva, Switzerland, the 1980s. In which I review Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner’s 1984 novel about a romance novelist holidaying at a Swiss hotel, in exile from a failed relationship. ![]()
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