Girl At The Lion d'Or

by Sebastian Faulks
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A beautiful and moving novel about love and loss in France in the early twentieth century

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A beautifully controlled and powerful story of love and conscience, will and desire which begins when a mysterious young girl arrives to take up the post at the seedy Hotel du Lion D'Or in a small French town in the mid 1930s.

Editorial Reviews

"[A] story of restrained emotions played out in a period setting among picturesque locations...Faulks gives every sign of being a real novelist, who thinks and feels through the written word." - Guardian

"This moving and profound novel is perfectly constructed, and admirable in its configurations of place and period" - Times

"An unusual and moving novel in which courage and abnegation are pitted against illicit but total love...a poised and well-judged work" - Financial Times

"[A] powerful story of love, conscience, will and desire" - Observer

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