The Girl At The Lion D'Or

From the author of the international bestseller Birdsong
comes a haunting historical novel of passion loss and
courage set in France between the two world wars. This
Vintage Original edition marks its first appearance in the
United States. On a rainy night in the 1930s Anne Louvet
appears at the run-down Hotel du Lion dOr in the village
of Janvilliers. She is seeking a job and a new life one
far removed from the awful injustices of her past. As Anne
embarks on a torrential love affair with a married veteran
of the Great War The Girl at the Lion dOr fashions an
unbreakable spell of narrative and atmosphere that evokes
French masters from Flaubert to Renoir.