The Girl at the Lion d'Or Author:Sebastian Faulks On a rainy night in the 1930s, Anne Louvet appears at the run-down Hotel du Lion d'Or 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 d'Or fashions an unbreak... more »able spell of narrative and atmosphere that evokes French masters from Flaubert to Renoir.« less