The Bay Of Angels
$32.09
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2016
Summary
It was at Millie’s party, on that Friday evening, that she met her second husband, my stepfather-to-be, and thus changed both our lives …
Zoe is delighted when her widowed mother marries Simon, a generous older man who owns a villa in Nice. However, the long enchanted visits to France she enjoys come to an abrupt end when Simon suffers a bad fall. Zoe and her mother, finding themselves surrounded by well-meaning strangers, must learn how and how not to trust appearances …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241977835 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241977835 |
| Author: | Anita Brookner |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2016 |
| Weight: | 166g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 16mm |
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Tough, cogent writing, without sentimentality, and its polish never masks its realism. … Brookner reveals herself as a European novelist and a major one.’
Tough, cogent writing, without sentimentality, and its polish never masks its realism. … Brookner reveals herself as a European novelist and a major one.’ * The Times *With a steelier grip than almost any other writer, Brookner always reaches out and pulls you in. Her talent for immersing you in the pinched, emotional life of her characters is unparalleled… Her understanding of female loneliness is heart-clenching. * Mail on Sunday *Achieved with the subtle brilliance for which Booker Prize-winning Brookner has received such acclaim… It is highly unlikely you will read a finer piece of literature this year * Scotland on Sunday *What a relief it is to read this beautifully crafted prose * Daily Express *One of Brookner’s most subtle, original and emotionally resonant works… She subverts expectations again * Sunday Telegraph *
About The Author
Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and after holding a post as a professor at Cambridge University and spending several years in Paris, she worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988.
She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. In 1984, she won the Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner published a number of volumes of art criticism.
She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1990. She died in 2016 at the age of 87.
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