![]() ![]() At the hotel, she observes people from different walks of life - wealthy Mrs Pusey and her daughter Jennifer, their love for each other, and the splendid oblivious lives they live Mme de Bonneuil, who lives at the hotel in solitary expulsion from her chateau, now inhabited by her son and his wife and Monica, who came to the hotel acceding to her husband's demands to fix her "eating disorder" and become fertile enough to bear him an heir.Įdith falls for the ambiguous smile of Mr Neville, a wealthy owner of a technology company, who asks for her hand in marriage. However, the hotel's silent charms and her observations of the guests there all tug at Edith with questions about her identity, forcing her to examine who she is and what she has been. They advise her to go on "probation" so as to "grow up", "be a woman", and atone for her mistakes.Įdith comes to the hotel swearing not to change. After a secret and often lonely affair with a married man and an aborted marriage, she is banished by her friends. Plot Įdith reaches Hotel du Lac in a state of bewildered confusion at the turn of events in her life. ![]() There she meets other English visitors, including Mrs Pusey, Mrs Pusey's daughter Jennifer, and an attractive middle-aged man, Mr Neville. It centres on Edith Hope, a romance novelist who is staying in a hotel on the shores of Lake Geneva. Hotel du Lac is a 1984 Booker Prize-winning novel by English writer Anita Brookner. ![]()
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