No Angel Hotel

Aylor, Anne2012

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Summary

For most of us, there is one person we can never stop loving. For Elkie Bonner, a grocer's daughter from Northern Ireland, it's Ivan Packenham, the sophisticated son of a landowner in County Londonderry who's home for a visit. In a drunken moment, he asks her to `run away' with him to Swinging London. Once there, he neglects her. Her life is spent waiting for him, rewarded only with brief visits to her dingy bedsit. After a disastrous holiday together in Normandy, he disappears from her life, sending her occasional postcards which arrive with no return address. Elkie struggles to forget him, takes lovers, becomes engaged. Then Ivan sends her another postcard, asking her to meet him at the Grand Hotel in Cabourg, the resort where he'd once abandoned her. Now that she's finally stopped caring for him, can she risk seeing him again? If she goes, what will she say? 'How are you, Ivan? Can it really have been thirteen years? I've been frozen for so long.'