In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her internationalreputation Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternalquestion Why... » 

In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her internationalreputation Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternalquestion Why love? It tells the story of Edith Hope who writes romancenovels under a psudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her ownnovels however Edith flees to Switzerland where the quiet luxury of theHotel du Lac promises to resore her to her senses.But instead of peace and rest Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotelwith an assortment of loves casualties and exiles. She also attracts theattention of a worldly man determined to release her unused capacity formischief and pleasure. Beautifully observed witheringly funny Hotel du Lac isBrookner at her most stylish and potently subversive. «