With the same romantic sweep and vibrant historical detail that he brought to his bestsellers, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray, Sebastian Faulks gives us a haunting novel of passion, courage and loss set in France between the wars. On a rainy night in the 1930s a young girl appears at the run-down Hotel du Lion d'Or in the seaside village of Janvilliers. She calls herself Anne Louvet; she is looking for work. And although her open-heartedness charms everyone but the inn's forbidding proprietress, it is clear that she has a secret.
Soon Anne falls in love with Charles Hartmann, a married veteran of the Great War who harbors his own burden of tragedy. As it follows their torrential affair, The Girl at the Lion d'Or weaves an unbreakable spell of narrative, mood, and character that evokes French masters from Flaubert to Renoir. This Vintage edition marks its first publication in the United States.
"This moving and profound novel is perfectly constructed, and admirable in its configurations of place and period."--The Times(London)
"I would urge those who appreciated--The French Lieutenant's Woman to try this one--. They may well think it superior."--Sunday Telegraph (London)
