Summary
Novel from the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac
Nadine has always wanted her daughter Maud to be married and off her hands. When the two women are staying at Nadine’s sister’s house near Meaux, they become part of a sophisticated, wordly group into which neither Maud nor Edward Harrison, a young visitor from England, seem to fit.
Maud is swept off her feet by David Tyler, a stylish, irresponsible young man who robs her of her innocence and disapp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241979488 |
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| ISBN-10: | 024197948X |
| Author: | Anita Brookner |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2016 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
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She is funny, vivid and devastating in her observations.
She is funny, vivid and devastating in her observations. * Helen Dunmore, Observer *Anita Brookner has sublimely mastered the art of making her reader interested in her characters … a thoroughly enjoyable and most unusual novel. * Spectator *An enchanting, honest novel. * Time Out *
About The Author
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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