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When cautious Emma Roberts goes to France to carry out research into seventeenth century garden design, she finds a reliable diversion from her studies in her unlikely new friend Francoise Desnoyers, in whose beautiful house she is welcomed as a guest. She is not too dazzled to ignore the tensions that exist between Francoise and her formidable mother, or between Mme. Desnoyers and her other guests.

London recedes into the background as life in France becomes more significant in every respect. It is not until the horrifying episode that puts an end to this fascination, that Emma is reconciled to her duller but safer life at home and to the compromises that she comes to accept.

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" A small gem of clarity and intensity. Her latest, "Leaving Home," promises--and delivers--the savory experience devotees of Brookner have come to crave." -- "The Baltimore Sun"
" Yet another delicious reading experience. Her elegant prose and psychological acuity are fully on display. . . . As a narrator Emma is both clear-eyed and honest--often achingly so."
-- "The Christian Science Monitor"
" Beautiful, piercingly elegant." -- "New York Times Book Review"
" It's hard to pinpoint how Brookner's world differs from the one we know, since the minute we begin reading her fiction, we lose our awareness of the boundaries that separate us from the people whose often circumscribed lives she is so deftly describing. . . . Admirable and refreshing." -- "Bookforum"

"A small gem of clarity and intensity. Her latest, "Leaving Home," promises--and delivers--the savory experience devotees of Brookner have come to crave." "The Baltimore Sun""Yet another delicious reading experience. Her elegant prose and psychological acuity are fully on display. . . . As a narrator Emma is both clear-eyed and honest--often achingly so." "The Christian Science Monitor""Beautiful, piercingly elegant." "New York Times Book Review" It s hard to pinpoint how Brookner s world differs from the one we know, since the minute we begin reading her fiction, we lose our awareness of the boundaries that separate us from the people whose often circumscribed lives she is so deftly describing. . . . Admirable and refreshing. "Bookforum""
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`Elegiac ... its magnificent final sentence is among the most moving of Brooknerian conclusions' New Statesman

`Clever and elegant' Sunday Times

`Brookner is brilliant ... readers will not be disappointed. Her women are very real, more recognizable and more human than any obviously loveable character could hope to be' Sunday Herald

`So well done - so carefully is the novel wrought - that reading it offers deep and enduring pleasure' Scotsman

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  • Publication date2006
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  • ISBN 13 9780141020709
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