Then there’s Madame de Bonnueil, an elderly widow who is despatched to the hotel every summer by a daughter in law who considers her a nuisance. The other guests include the beautiful Monica a young woman with an eating disorder who’s been sent to the hotel by her husband along with an ultimatum - sort herself out and produce a son and heir otherwise she’ll be history.
Perhaps it’s because, like her, they are all adrift washed up at a lakeside hotel that provides solace to those in need by sticking stolidly to its traditions.Įdith is a romantic novelist who’s been exiled to the hotel after an indiscretion that outraged her friends. But there is something about this quiet, plain woman who wears comfy cardigans and prefers the quietude of her garden to drinks parties and social gatherings, that makes her fellow guests gravitate towards her. ” I am not a fascinating woman,” reflects Edith Hope as she sits in an out-of-season Swiss hotel trying to decide how she should make her way through life.
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