Radio 4 listeners, some new to Elizabeth Taylor, and others who've been reading her books for forty years, join in the discussion with David Baddiel, and the programme is presented by James Naughtie.Īugust's Bookclub choice : The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. She wrote her first book, At Mrs Lippincote's. She strikes up an unlikely friendship with an impoverished young writer, Ludo, who uses her life for his novel. About the author (2006) Elizabeth Taylor (1912-75) is increasingly being recognised as one of the best writers of the twentieth century. It tells the story of Laura Palfrey, a widow who can no longer look after herself and moves into a private hotel in West London, where she will probably end her days. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont was the last book to be published in her life time, and was shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1971.
He has called her 'the missing link between Jane Austen and John Updike'. The novel was adapted for television in 1973 and was the basis for a 2005 film, also called Mrs. It was shortlisted for the 1971 Booker Prize. Published in 1971, it was her eleventh novel. Like many writers, David Baddiel thinks that Elizabeth Taylor has been overlooked and is one of the finest writers of the middle of the twentieth century. Palfrey at the Claremont is a novel by Elizabeth Taylor. To celebrate the centenary of novelist Elizabeth Taylor, David Baddiel is our guide to her best known book, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont.
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