Summary
Slowly, almost imperceptibly, Anna Durrant’s acquaintances realize that Anna has gone missing. Normally so reliable, so helpful, she has neglected what duties remain to her after the death of her mother and taken flight.
Lawrence Halliday, the family doctor, trapped in a trying marriage to the predatory Vickie, is the first to notice Anna’s disappearance. Mrs Marsh, a critical friend of Anna’s mother, had hoped that her arrogant son Nick might take an interest in Anna, but he is seeki…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241979419 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241979412 |
| Author: | Anita Brookner |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2016 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 14mm |
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A writer of bewitching readability
A writer of bewitching readability * The Times *What makes this book gripping … is its truthfulness. It is a sort of detective story after all, with Brookner as the sleuth … applying her own devastating insight. * Sunday Times *What a humorous and humane as well as accomplished artist she is. * London Review of Books *Classic Brookner * The Times *
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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 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. Hotel du Lac won the 1984 Booker Prize. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.
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