Anita Brookner's Booker Prize-winning novel follows Edith Hope as she checks into the elegant Hotel du Lac, a refined Swiss retreat that caters to the dignified and respectable. Amid the hotel's rarefied atmosphere and among its distinguished guests, Edith confronts questions of romance, identity, and the choices that define a life. This philosophical and beautifully crafted work explores the quiet complexities of desire and belonging with characteristic grace and insight.
