Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Author: Elizabeth Taylor
Librarian Note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here,,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 o….Read More
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