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Leaving Home

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241965511

  • Length: 176  Pages

  • RRP: £7.99

Leaving Home

Emma Roberts leaves home for the first time in her twenties, travelling to Paris to study seventeenth-century garden design. There, she meets vivacious Françoise Desnoyers and is quickly drawn into her passionate and complicated world.

But Françoise's demands - deceiving her formidable mother over a love affair - leave Emma feeling exposed and vulnerable, and yearning for the safety and comfort of her London home. Yet when an unexpected family tragedy turns that life upside down, Emma comes to realize the impossibility of returning to a home you have already left behind...

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241965511

  • Length: 176  Pages

  • RRP: £7.99

Reviews

  • Enthralling... so beautifully observed... as captivating as any thriller

    Marie Claire

  • Spare and devastating, powerful. Brookner is an unflinching novelist who writes beautifully and fearlessly

    Independent

  • Elegiac ... its magnificent final sentence is among the most moving of Brooknerian conclusions

    New Statesman

  • Clever and elegant

    Sunday Times

  • So well done - so carefully is the novel wrought - that reading it offers deep and enduring pleasure

    Scotsman

  • Brookner is brilliant ... readers will not be disappointed. Her women are very real, more recognizable and more human than any obviously loveable character could hope to be

    Sunday Herald

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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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