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'Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont is, for me, her masterpiece' - Robert McCrum, Guardian, 'The Best 100 Novels'
'An author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth' - SARAH WATERS
'Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabath Bowen - soul-sisters all' ANNE TYLER

On 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 unlikely friendship with an impoverished young writer, Ludo, who sees her as inspiration for his novel.

'Elizabeth Taylor's exquisitely drawn character study of eccentricity in old age is a sharp and witty portrait of genteel postwar English life facing the changes taking shape in the 60s . . . Much of the reader's joy lies in the exquisite subtlety in Taylor's depiction of all the relationships, the sharp brevity of her wit, and the apparently effortless way the plot unfolds' -Robert McCrum 'the 100 best novels', Guardian

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Elizabeth Taylor's exquisitely drawn character study of eccentricity in old age is a sharp and witty portrait of genteel postwar English life facing the changes taking shape in the 60s . . . Much of the reader's joy lies in the exquisite subtlety in Taylor's depiction of all the relationships, the sharp brevity of her wit, and the apparently effortless way the plot unfolds . . . Mrs Palfrey at the Claremontis, for me, her masterpiece -- Robert McCrum ― 'the 100 best novels', Guardian

Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen - soul-sisters all

Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth. As a reader, I have found huge pleasure in returning to Taylor's novels and short stories many times over. As a writer I've returned to her too - in awe of her achievements, and trying to work out how she does it -- Sarah Waters

One of the most underrated novelists of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Taylor writes with a wonderful precision and grace. Her world is totally absorbing -- Antonia Fraser

She's a magnificent and underrated mid-twentieth-century writer, the missing link between Jane Austen and John Updike ― Independent

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A humorous and compassionate look at friendship between an old woman and a young man.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1844083217
Herausgeber ‏ : ‎ Virago; Reprint Edition (6. April 2006)
Sprache ‏ : ‎ Englisch
Taschenbuch ‏ : ‎ 208 Seiten
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781844083213
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1844083213
Abmessungen ‏ : ‎ 13.34 x 1.27 x 19.69 cm

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Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont might well be subtitled ‘Keeping Up Appearances’ so keen is Mrs Palfrey to hide the fact she’s lonely and feels rather abandoned by her family. However, she’s determined to preserve her independence while she can.

The book provides an insight into a mode of living that is unfamiliar to modern eyes where a hotel is a place to stay on business or for pleasure, not to reside in on a long-term basis – and without the convenience of a bathroom of your own. The presence of so many long-term residents is not quite what Mr Wilkins, the hotel’s manager, wants for his establishment either. ‘His dream was Conference trade, drinking businessmen, a board in the hall saying ‘I.C.I. Pompadour Suite. 11am.’ He aspired to that.’

Alongside the reader, Mrs Palfrey accustoms herself to the routines that punctuate the residents’ days – the posting of the menus for lunch and dinner, gathering in the lounge before dinner, repairing to the television room after dinner to watch the latest serial. The author also gives us insightful, sometimes affectionate, portraits of Mrs Palfrey’s fellow residents, their habits and foibles. There’s Mrs Burton who makes frequent use of the bell to summon the aged waiter, Antonio, to take her drink order in the evening. Or Mrs Arbuthnot who has ‘ears sharpened by malice’ but is crippled by the pain of arthritis so that it would be a hard-hearted reader who did not have some sympathy for her. There’s Mrs Post who delights in feeling useful by running errands for others, Mr Osmond whose favourite occupation is writing angry letters on a variety of subjects to the Daily Telegraph, and Mrs de Salis who has ‘the best hearing at the Claremont’, which occasionally comes in handy.

One of my favourite scenes in the book was the party thrown by Mrs de Salis after she has moved out of the Claremont about which one guest recalls, “I’m glad I went… but I shouldn’t have to go again tomorrow“. (I think many of us may have been to parties like that.) Or the Masonic Ladies’ Night at which an entirely unexpected offer is made.

I found the friendship that develops between aspiring author, Ludovic, and Mrs Palfrey touching even if initially they are using each other: she to hide a deception, and he to provide material for the novel he is writing. Through Ludovic the reader gets an insight into London life of the period for those with little money to spare: evenings spent at the launderette, careful calculations about how long the gas fire can be lit for, watching the feet of passers-by from a dingy basement flat. On a lighter note, when Ludovic seeks to augment his income by getting a job as a waiter in a Greek restaurant, there is this wonderful passage. “The Plaka was in a basement throbbing with bouzoukia and smelling of charred lamb. In this deafening noise, Greek refugees became more Greek than ever before in their lives. English Philhellenes Kalisperassed about the place continually.”

Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont is a charming story tinged with humour but also with moments of poignant sadness.

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Sad, but thoughtful and elegiac study of genteel old age

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I spotted this on a list of "great" books, nearly all of which I'd read, and was in the middle of tackling the mid 20th century lady authors; Taylor was next on my list, and I was intending to read "A Wreath of Roses", which I had in the bookshelf. Ordered this and was entranced. Yes, shades of Barbara Pym, but without the everlasting pesky clerics. The same needle sharp observation of dress, appearance and manner. She really captures people and their characteristics brilliantly. Not as funny as Pym, but it is not without humour. It is of its time - a period when the genteel elderly tried to keep up appearances in gloomy hotels - where "they weren't allowed to die". Then, as now, their relatives were all too prone to ship them off to even grimmer nursing homes in order to eliminate the need to care for them personally. The difference being that carefully hoarded annuities and pensions meant that in all cases the care was paid for by the individuals and not the state. Some of the occupants of the Claremont are less than pleasant, but Mrs Palfrey comes across as a splendid individual - plucky, brave and resourceful. The limitations of old age come as a bit of a surprise, with her stick and wobbliness, which leads to her fall and fortuitous meeting with the delightful Ludo. The ensuing subterfuge was rather joyful, and Ludo certainly played his part with aplomb. Inevitably, le vrai Desmond was going to appear, to distinctly less acclaim from the denizens of the Claremont. The contrast between the kindness and decency (I kept thinking, no, he must be doing this for some unpleasant motive) of the one, and the careless heartlessness of Mrs Palfrey's daughter and grandson was telling. Ludo's backstory explains his need for a kindly, upright female in his life, and the character and his lifestyle was partly based on one in Taylor's own life - again very like Pym who used her own life experiences repeatedly in her novels.

There is no great plot - some lovely vignettes of shopping in Harrods food hall - further shades of Pym with the knitting of jumpers for favoured young men (not curates, thankfully). A little twist at the end where we are lead to believe that Ludo is not after all, the paragon he has appeared, only for his goodness to shine through at the end. I kept thinking how unusual it is in a relatively modern novel to have a thoroughly decent, likeable and kind male character; none of Dickens' saint or villain or comedy stereotypes. We, like Mrs Palfrey herself, are not expecting her to die, but die she does, with Ludo easing her passing. Many readers have found this sad and depressing, but the only moment of total pathos for me was when her thoughtlessly unpleasant daughter and son-in-law failed to put a notice of death in the Daily Telegraph in the belief that there was no one left who cared. It was always matter of great concern to my elderly relatives that they were properly "despatched" in the Telegraph and to those who understand how important these things are to the elderly, it was a cruel and rather bleak ending.

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel, which I think is an understated masterpiece - I'm not going to make the inevitable comparisons with Jane Austen, although I have drawn them with Barbara Pym. I found her style in this book more agreeable than Bowen's, which I found horribly convoluted, although in "A Wreath of Roses", which I subsequently read, I found greater similarities of style, and found the endless internal musings of rather pointless women a tad tedious.

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