Imprint: Penguin
Published: 03/11/2016
ISBN: 9780241979488
Length: 224 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
Weight: 200g
RRP: £8.99
'I have reached the age when a woman begins to perceive that she is growing into the person whom she least plans to resemble: her mother.'
Nadine has always wanted her daughter Maud to be married and off her hands. When the two women are staying at Nadine's sister's house near Meaux, they become part of a sophisticated, wordly group into which neither Maud nor Edward Harrison, a young visitor from England, seem to fit.
Maud is swept off her feet by David Tyler, a stylish, irresponsible young man who robs her of her innocence and disappears. Edward, forced into adulthood by his inheritance of a bookshop, and thus a career, takes Maud into his care. But for both of them the shadow of Tyler is always there, illuminating their feelings of inadequacy, disappointment and loss.
Imprint: Penguin
Published: 03/11/2016
ISBN: 9780241979488
Length: 224 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
Weight: 200g
RRP: £8.99
She is funny, vivid and devastating in her observations.
Anita Brookner has sublimely mastered the art of making her reader interested in her characters . . . a thoroughly enjoyable and most unusual novel.
An enchanting, honest novel.