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Book SynopsisAnita 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.
Trade ReviewOne of Brookner's best novels * Penelope Lively, The Observer *
Utterly absorbing . . . so great is Brookner's skill as a writer that you will find it difficult not to devour this brilliant novel at one long sitting. * Daily Mail *
A subtle and thorough exploration of the relationship between nostalgia and old age . . . Brooker [is] one of the bravest novelists around. * Jonathan Coe, Guardian *
Compression, economy and the ability to conjure up an entire personality with a few adroitly chosen words.
Brief Lives is a perfect demonstration of these gifts. * Penelope Lively, Evening Standard *
