We do have a few openings during the period you requested. Our two-bedroom cabins rent at the weekly rate of sixty-five (U.S.) dollars. Croquet on the lawn, the Vermont vacation guide had said rowboats, sundown concerts on Saturday nights a lifeguard, a dock, a raft, a slide. Typed on textured white stationery below a green pointillist etching of a lakeside hotel. The others answered with printed rate cards and cordial notes. She sent the same letter to a dozen cottage colonies and inns inquiring about rates and availability. Listed some twenty accommodations on Lake Devine. She found a lake on the map that was neither too big nor too small, and not too far north. That year she wrote to Vermont, which someone had told her was heaven. We'd been to Cape Cod and Cape Ann, to Old Orchard, Salisbury, and Hamptonīeaches, to Winnipesaukee and the Finger Lakes. We were nothing to them, a name on an envelope, when it began in 1962 as a response to a blind inquiry my mother had sent out in multiples. Tickets cost £10 and include a glass of wine or soft drink.It was not complicated, and, as my mother pointed out, not even personal: They had a hotel they didn't want Jews we were Jews.

But when it’s found in the recycling bin by a busybody neighbour turned documentary filmmaker, its mysteries – not to mention those of her own family – take on a whole new urgency, and Daphne finds herself entangled in a series of events both poignant and absurd.Įlinor Lipman is the award-winning author of eleven novels, including The View from Penthouse B and The Inn at Lake Devine one essay collection, I Can’t Complain and Tweet Land of Liberty. The Washington Post described Elinor as “an enchanting, infinitely witty yet serious, exceptionally intelligent, wholly original, and Austen-like stylist”Įlinor will be discussing her new book Good Riddance: One woman’s trash becomes another woman’s treasure, with deliriously entertaining results… In a fit of decluttering, Daphne Maritch throws away the heavily annotated high street yearbook she inherited from her mother. Village Books are delighted to welcome Elinor Lipman, author of The Inn at Lake Devine, Then She Found Me and The Family Man to Dulwich. CANCELLED - Unfortunately due to current concerns about travel between the US and Europe, Elinor has had to cancel the trip here next week.

The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman