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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 ReviewHow 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 *
Dazzling. * Spectator *
Works so brilliantly. * Daily Telegraph *
Brookner has a merciless comic gift. * Sunday Times *
