A Closed Eye - Softcover

Brookner, Anita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241979404 ISBN 13: 9780241979402

Publisher: Penguin, 2016

Synopsis

'Without warning, it seemed, she had become a married woman.'

Naive and undemanding, Harriet Lytton expects very little of life and that is what she recieves. Married to a respectable man old enough to be her father, Harriet's only taste of passion comes when she meets Jack Peckham, the unruly, attractive husband of her friend Tessa.

Tessa and Harriet have for many years been bound together by their childhood friendship and the imposed alliance of their two daughters, Imogen and Lizzie. But events conspire to shatter the gentle rhythm of Harriet's life. Tragically restrained by her own cautious choices, she faces the cruellest losses of all: those of hope and desire.

About this title

Review:

A bravura performance (Observer)

Anita Brookner's eleventh novel is one of her best . . . She is a great writer. And her final pages, which unfold into a surprising, radiant kindness, will move you to tears. (Mail on Sunday)

The portrait of Harriet's sad, kind marriage is superb; and Harriet herself is the best Brookner heroine since Edith of Hotel du Lac. (New Statesman)

Loneliness can hardly have been better portrayed . . . This is Anita Brookner at her most sombre: yet not gloomy or depressing - the writing is too good. (Financial Times)

Book Description:

From the winner of the 1984 Booker Prize and the author of Brief Lives, comes a story of loss and regret.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0241979404
• ISBN 13: 9780241979402
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256