Incidents in the Rue Laugier - Hardcover

Brookner, Anita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 022404124X ISBN 13: 9780224041249

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

Every summer Maud Gonthier, from Dijon, the only daughter of a widowed mother, is invited to La Gaillarderie, her aunt's large country house. This particular summer Maud is eighteen, a handsome young woman, but cautious, rigid, a girl who does not know how to flirt. At La Gaillarderie she will meet two Englishmen, David Tyler - assured, beautiful and ruthless - and Tyler's friend from Cambridge, Edward Harrison, a quiet dreamer. Maud, as is inevitable, is seduced by Tyler. They move, all three, to Paris, to an apartment on the Rue Laugier. Tyler, as is also inevitable, deserts Maud, leaving her pregnant. What is not inevitable is that Edward offers to marry her and that she agrees...

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Review:

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)

Synopsis:

One summer at La Gaillarderie, 18-year-old Maud - handsome but not flirtatious - meets two Englishmen, and they all move eventually to an apartment in Paris. Maud is seduced by the assured and ruthless David who leaves her pregnant, whereupon the quiet dreamy Edward offers to marry her.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 022404124X
• ISBN 13: 9780224041249
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 233