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About the Author

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.

Reviews

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*

Bewitching.
*The Times*

Clever and engrossing.
*David Lodge, Sunday Times*

Flawless.
*Observer, Books of the Year*

Witty, intelligent and tirelessly perceptive.
*Evening Standard*