{"product_id":"family-and-friends-9780241977781","title":"Family And Friends","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnita 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, \u003ci\u003eA Start in Life\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, \u003ci\u003eStrangers\u003c\/i\u003e, in 2009. \u003ci\u003eHotel du Lac\u003c\/i\u003e won the 1984 Booker Prize. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow 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 *\u003cbr\u003eDazzling. * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eWorks so brilliantly. * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eBrookner has a merciless comic gift. * Sunday Times *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017707716951,"sku":"9780241977781","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241977781.jpg?v=1750774401","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/family-and-friends-9780241977781","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}