Angel Hotel

The affair between Elkie, an Irish girl and Ivan, her wealthy, sophisticated lover, unravels after they both leave for London, but a thread of passion binds them together forever

Well-bred Ivan returns to Pellipar House after years of travel abroad. He falls in love with Elkie (or Luz, as she secretly calls herself), a voluptuous peasant girl. Their stormy romancehe's intellectual and repressed, she's intuitive and emotionaltakes them first to London, then to a French resort in Normandy and, finally, after a hiatus of 13 years, to France again. Elkie and Ivan's relationship is tragic and all-consuming, but the reader does not feel their emotion. Nothing much happens in the episodic, attenuated text, and Aylor never takes advantage of the wonderful potential her locale offers. (January 12) Copyright 1986 Cahners Business Information.