Summary
The acclaimed literary novel about family relationships, ageing and generational conflict from the Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel du Lac
Dorothea May lives a quiet, ordered life, content with the routines that have shaped her world. But her tranquillity is disrupted when her friend Kitty Levinson announces the forthcoming marriage of her granddaughter. What’s more, Kitty, in her usual imperious fashion, expects Dorothea to accommodate the bridegroom’s fri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140264258 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140264256 |
| Author: | Anita Brookner |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 1998 |
| Weight: | 145g |
| Dimensions: | 1mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
No one writes with more skill and honesty about the human condition * Observer *
Each book is a prayer bead on a string, and each prayer is a secular, circumspect prayer, a protest, and a charm against encroaching night * Hilary Mantel *
Anita Brookner is a distinguished and defiant writer whose books occupy a unique place in English literature * Independent *
Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner was born in London in 1928 and, apart from several years in Paris, has lived there ever since. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988. She has published twenty-four novels.
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