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A novel which follows Frances Hinton, a shy, clever woman who works in a medical library and spends her evenings in solitude writing fiction, when she is adopted by Nick, and his equally dazzling wife Alix.
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How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit. (Tessa Hadley on 'A Start in Life' 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)
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Bewitching. (The Times)
Clever and engrossing. (David Lodge, Sunday Times)
Flawless. (Observer, Books of the Year)
Witty, intelligent and tirelessly perceptive. (Evening Standard)
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.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0224020552
- ISBN 13 9780224020558
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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