Another day is another world. The difference between foreign countries is never so great as the difference between night and day. A Game of Hide and Seek is a 1951 novel by Elizabeth Taylor. My copy was reprinted by NYRB Classics in 2012. I've not read anything by Elizabeth Taylor previously. ...
Mrs Palfrey, newly widowed, moves into the Claremont Hotel. She expects that she will not check out again until her death. Chosen for it’s location, with all the sights and sounds of London on it’s doorstep, it’s cheap rates and the proximity to her grandson, she is determined to make the best of it...
What a bittersweet little book! The widowed Mrs Palfrey chooses to moved into the Claremont Hotel in London before her daughter can put her in a nursing home. The Claremont takes dinner, overnight, and live-in guests. The live-ins number fewer than 10. They feel rejected by their younger family me...
In A Room of One's Own (1928), Virginia Woolf described the emerging woman writer of the 20th century as theoretically confined to writing in her drawing-room - sometimes secretively, hampered literarily by patriarchy and hindered creatively by her inexperience of the world. Elizabeth Taylor( 1912-1...
A book about the life of an English officer's wife (stationed in England) during WWII and also his "spinster" cousin who lives with them. Three stars because it's not as good as the other books I've read by Taylor. It's still an excellent story. I just wouldn't recommend it as a starting point for e...
Oh how I love stories that actually say something and have a point!Also, Taylor has this way of writing that skips from the tips (the points that are felt most precisely) of one emotion to another and with great clarity and passion without ever falling into sentimentality. Still it can all be felt. ...
Karen gave the initial recco, and now I see Cheryl has added it too. Neat!Introduced by Paul baileyOpening: Mrs Palfrey first came to the Claremont Hotel on a Sunday afternoon in January.4* Dangerous Calm4* Mrs Palfrey at the ClaremontKaren 5*Cheryl 4*Libbeth 4*Deanne 3*
This was a lovely story, beautifully constructed and self-contained. It would be a great play. It is a touching and thoughtful look at aging, loneliness, and community, with a colourful cast of often sharp-tongued characters. A bit of trivia: p71, the mother of Mrs Palfrey's friend says "But eve...
4 Extra Debut. Emily and Edmund know more about each other than anyone in the world, but how will their first meeting go? Read by Joanna David.http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0076h12/Dangerous_Calm_Elizabeth_Taylor_The_Letter_Writers/newtome authorApparently Elizabeth Taylor is most renowned t...
Stories such as 'Summer Schools', 'Flesh' and 'The Devastating Boys' confirm her status as one of the finest short story writers. This selection also features two previously unpublished stories and three uncollected ones, including the late, poignant tale, 'The Wrong Order'however the BBC didn't add...
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