I read this years ago but I just read it again. It is probably too slow for many, but I loved it. A romance novelist flies to Switzerland and is staying at a barely open hotel. She observes her fellow guests and ruminates on her life and wonders about theirs. It takes a while to find out what she is running from. This won the Booker Award in 1984 fighting off some stiff competition. Certainly a sad book in many ways but a thoughtful examination of single women of an age.
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There was a British TV movie version in 1986, with Anna Massey, Denholm Elliott, Julia McKenzie and Patricia Hodge.
I tried to find it but it doesn't look like it's streaming anywhere.
This sounds very good to me. Slow is fine and I like books set in hotels. I have a copy, I just need to read it.
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