The Girl at the Lion d’Or
Author: Sebastian Faulks
A beautifully controlled and powerful story of love and conscience, will and desire, which begins when a mysterious young girl arrives to take up the post at the seedy Hotel du Lion d’Or in a small French town in the mid-1930s…..Read More
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