'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.'
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.
Excellent
*Sunday Times*
Enormously sophisticated, knowing, often very funny
tragi-comedy
*Financial Times*
How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every
sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit.
*Guardian Summer Reads, 2015*
A delight, amusing, beautifully written.
*The Times*
Enormously sophisticated, knowing, often very funny
tragi-comedy.
*Financial Times*
Excellent, brilliantly drawn.
*Sunday Times*
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