November - Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor

This November we will delve into 1971’s “Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont” by Elizabeth Taylor. Short listed for he Man Booker prize, and the subject of a tv adaptation and 2005 movie, it will be our last proper read for the year.

“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 unexpected friendship with Ludo, a handsome young writer, and learns that even the old can fall in love”