"All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer."@en
"Solitude, grand âge et approche de la mort sont les thèmes conjugués de ce récit à la fois sensible et cruel."
""ALa rencontre d'une vieille dame, installée dans un hôtel londonien qui en fait est une résidence pour personnes agées et de Ludo, un jeune écrivain."
"Mrs Palfrey has joined the ranks of the rejected, those who await the end in thegenteel hell of the Claremont, a residential hotel in the Cromwell Road. The battlefield is no less real for being swathed in chintz."
""On a rainy Sunday afternoon in January, Mrs. Palfrey, recently widowed, arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are a mixed bunch -- magnificently flawed and eccentric -- living off crumbs of affection and an obsessive interest in the relentless round of hotel meals. Togehter, upper lips stiffened, they fight off their twin enemies: boredom and the Grim Reaper. And then one day, Mrs. Palfrey encounters the handsome young writer Ludo, and learns that even old can fall in love"--Page 4 of cover."
"Mrs. Palfrey, an elegant, genteel widow, came from Scotland to London to take up residence at the Claremont Hotel. Though she had high hopes for the cosmopolitan pleasures of living in a big city, she is soon filled with a sense of uneasiness and gloom."