"One Chance Meeting, Two Changed Lives"
All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.
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Joan Plowright
Mrs. Palfrey
Rupert Friend
Ludovic Meyer
Zoë Tapper
Gwendolyn
Anna Massey
Mrs. Arbuthnot
Marcia Warren
Mrs. Post
Georgina Hale
Mrs. Burton
Robert Lang
Mr. Osborne
Millicent Martin
Mrs. De Salis
Michael Culkin
Willie De Salis
Anna Carteret
Elizabeth
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