By Elizabeth Taylor
On a wet Sunday in January, the lately widowed Mrs. Palfrey arrives on the Claremont resort the place she's going to spend her last days. Her fellow citizens are magnificently eccentric and eternally curious, residing off crumbs of love and snippets of gossip. jointly, higher lips stiffened, they try off their dual enemies—boredom and the bleak Reaper. Then at some point Mrs. Palfrey moves up an unforeseen friendship with Ludo, a good-looking younger author, and learns that even the previous can fall in love.
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