Hotel du Lac (1984) By Anita Brookner – A Charnel House with 24 ...

Mother to a son who hardly visits her, she displays the carelessness and self-absorption of advanced age but her wealth and her dignity speak of a time in her life when she not only cared but knew how to get what she wanted. .... As a child I spent many summers by the pool at the very Hotel du Lac that inspired Brookner to write this novel. I even remember the veal-coloured interiors. The more I read of Brookner's book, the more I realised the fundamental truth of her ...