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.
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.
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*
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