Hotel du Lac

Name: Hotel du Lac
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780241996560
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By Anita Brookner

Series: Penguin Essentials

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Summary

Hotel du Lac follows Edith Hope, a romance novelist, who retreats to a quiet Swiss hotel after a personal scandal. As she interacts with the hotel's other eccentric guests, Edith is confronted with choices about love, solitude, and self-acceptance, leading her to rethink her past decisions and contemplate her future. The novel beautifully explores themes of loneliness and self-discovery in an elegant and atmospheric setting.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate beautifully crafted prose and introspective narratives. It captures themes of solitude, personal growth, and the complexities of human relationships, set against the serene backdrop of a Swiss hotel by a lake. Readers who enjoy character-driven stories with emotional depth will likely find it compelling.

Hotel du Lac

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Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner's best-known and bestselling Man Booker Prize-winning novel, is now a Penguin Essential.

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, and the respected patrons of an earlier era.

Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, a 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 humiliating loneliness is renewed.

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Hotel du Lac is praised for its absorbing narrative, with Anita Brookner's writing described as graceful, commanding, and beautifully formal. Critiques highlight the novel's emotional depth, wit, and cleverness, recognising it as a compelling love story. Reviews also commend Brookner as an exceptional contemporary author, suggesting the book's timeless appeal.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241996560

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 May 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 112.0mm

Height: 181.0mm

Weight: 110g

Pages: 192

Collections

Anita Brookner Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Penguin Books Series: Penguin Essentials

About the Author

Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. Hotel du Lac won the 1984 Booker Prize. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.