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Hotel du Lac

Hotel du Lac
Anita Brookner

Hotel du Lac is a 1984 Booker Prize-winning novel by English writer Anita Brookner. It centres on Edith Hope, a romance novelist who is staying in a hotel on the shores of Lake Geneva. There she meets other English visitors, including Mrs Pusey, Mrs Pusey's daughter Jennifer, and an attractive middle-aged man, Mr Neville.

“Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.”

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