'Elizabeth Taylor's exquisitely drawn character study of eccentricity in old age is a sharp and witty portrait of genteel postwar English life facing the changes taking shape in the 60s.

Then one day Mrs Palfrey strikes up an unlikely friendship with an impoverished young writer, Ludo, who sees her as inspiration for his novel. She is asserting her right to be herself after years as a colonial wife, while. Together, upper lips stiffened, they fight off their twin enemies: boredom and the Grim Reaper. Mrs Palfrey, recently widowed, arrives at the Claremont hotel on the Cromwell Road, one rainy Sunday in January. Her fellow residents are magnificently eccentric and endlessly curious, living off crumbs of affection and snippets of gossip. Palfrey at the Claremont Author, Elizabeth Taylor Publisher, Chatto and Windus, 1971 ISBN, 0701117826, 9780701117825 Length, 206 pages. On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. 'Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabath Bowen - soul-sisters all' ANNE TYLER 'An author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth' - SARAH WATERS Palfrey At The Claremont Movie Details & Credits Cineville Release Date: NovemSummary: This film centers around an elegant elderly lady (Mrs Palfrey) who, after being recently widowed, moves from Scotland to London to be near to her 26 year old grandson, Desmond. 'Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont is, for me, her masterpiece' - Robert McCrum, Guardian, 'The Best 100 Novels' The disaster of being old was in not felng safe to venture anywhere, of seeing freedom put out of her reach.

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