Winner of the Booker Prize the beautiful romantic and gorgeously philosophical Hotel du Lac
by Anita Brookner is part of our Penguin Essential series which spotlights the very best of our
modern classics '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
the respected patrons of an earlier era' Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac
timidly walks Edith Hope 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 . . . 'A
classic . . . a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now' Spectator
'Humorous witty touching and formidably clever' The Times ' Hotel du Lac is written with a
beautiful grave formality and it catches at the heart' Observer 'So sure and so quietly
commanding' Hilary Mantel Guardian
