Family And Friends
Anita Brookner

Family And Friends

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Summary

Beginning with a wedding photograph, this story charts the loves and lives of a family and their friends, following each of them through their own struggles, triumphs and sorrows.

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  • How 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

About the author

Anita Brookner

Anita 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.
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