Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

A nearly forgotten novel about a recently widowed woman living in a London hotel for the elderly. Grant calls it heartbreaking and gets emotional thinking about it; he believes it was Booker-shortlisted in the '70s, and he sent it to a British Patreon lottery winner.

Where it appears 1

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  the antidote to madnessEp 2 · with Grant Shipway

  Listen at 1:42:39Read it in the transcript

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Written by

• Elizabeth Taylor

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• A British book for a British readerGrant Shipway · Ep 2 · 1:43:30

  Grant's Patreon lottery winner was an Englishwoman, so he sent her Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, a forgotten British novel she'd never heard of. Her whole book club decided to read it…