Elderly widow Laura Palfrey, unable to live on her own and unwilling to live with her crass daughter in Scotland, checks into the Claremont Hotel. There she finds a community of sorts among the other elderly residents, who pass their days in desultory conversations between mealtimes and waiting, mostly in vain, for their relatives to visit. When Mrs. Palfrey takes a nasty fall on her daily walk, she is rescued by Ludo Myers, a writer living in a shabby basement apartment near the hotel. The […]

Another day is another world. The difference between foreign countries is never so great as the difference between night and day. A Game of Hide and Seek is a 1951 novel by Elizabeth Taylor. My copy was reprinted by NYRB Classics in 2012. I’ve not read anything by Elizabeth Taylor previously. This was not an easy book to read. It begins with a brief summer romance between the two main characters, Harriet and Vesey, as teenagers. They have been thrown together through family relationships and […]