The Girl at the Lion d'Or
A Fiction, Cultural, War book. That night Christine Hartmann went to bed with a book she had taken from among...
"Beautifully written and--extraordinarily moving."--The Sunday Times (London)From the author of the international bestseller Birdsong, comes a haunting historical novel of passion, loss, and courage set in France between the two world wars. This Vintage Original edition marks its first appearance in the United States.On a rainy night in the 1930s, Anne Louvet appears at the run-down Hotel du Lion d'Or in the village of Janvilliers. She is seeking a job and a new life, one far removed from the awful injustices of her past. As Anne embarks on a torrential love affair with a married veteran of the Great War, The...
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- Pages: 246 pages
- ISBN: 9780375704536 / 375704531
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From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone elses. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone elses, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate. Sebastian Faulks, The Girl at the Lion d'Or That night Christine Hartmann went to bed with a book she had taken from among the many that lay strewn around the Manor. From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else's. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on their ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else's, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too...
A good steady read about relationships set between the wars in rural France. I enjoyed the characters but was not really moved by the story as I found it difficult to identify with anyone in particular. Perhaps because I have been fortunate not to have had to experience the effects of war in an direct way. I have heard of Sebastian Faulks, many times. This is the first of his works that I have read.I am in love *sigh*.The Girl at the Lion D'Or is a love story; but it is also so much more. I am enchanted by Anne; she is resilient, yet also nave. I feel for Charles, caught in a marriage he did not desire, but as a gentleman was obliged... This book, by Sebastian Faulks, is about a mysterious young woman named Anne Louvet, a Parisian transplant to the French countryside in the 1930s. We don't know a lot about who she is or where she came from, but it's clear she's hiding some secrets from her past.Anne starts working as a waitress in a hotel, the Hotel du Lion d'Or, and...
