Hotel Du Lac; Family and Friends

byAnita Brookner, Hermione Lee (Introducer)

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Anita Brookner is known for her poignant, witty studies of emotionally restrained women navigating loneliness, deception, and desire.

‘Brookner works a spell on the reader; being under it is both an education and a delight.’—The Washington Post Book World

Hotel du Lac won the Booker Prize in 1984 and established Brookner’s international reputation as an intellectual powerhouse with an intimate understanding of the intricacies of human nature.
Sales exceed 120,000 copies in Vintage paperback.


INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEE, who selected the novels for this omnibus and as well as introducing it, making it the perfect companion to her new biography.

Hotel du Lac: Brookner's most absorbing novel…wryly realistic…graceful and attractive.

Anne Tyler

About 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 after holding a post as a professor at Cambridge University and spending several years in Paris, she 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. In 1984, she won the Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner published a number of volumes of art criticism. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1990. She died in 2016 at the age of 87.
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  • Imprint: Everyman
  • ISBN: 9781841594422
  • Length: 360 pages
  • Price: £17.99