About the Author

Anita Brookner was born in London in 1928. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988.

Reviews

A smashing love story. It is very romantic. It is also humorous, witty, touching and formidably clever The Times A classic...a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now Spectator Written with a beautiful grave formality, and it catches at the heart Observer She is one of the great writers of contemporary fiction Literary Review

A smashing love story. It is very romantic. It is also humorous, witty, touching and formidably clever The Times A classic...a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now Spectator Written with a beautiful grave formality, and it catches at the heart Observer She is one of the great writers of contemporary fiction Literary Review