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.
There was a British TV movie version in 1986, with Anna Massey, Denholm Elliott, Julia McKenzie and Patricia Hodge.
ReplyDeleteI tried to find it but it doesn't look like it's streaming anywhere.
ReplyDeleteThis 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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