'Once a thing is known it can never be unknown.'
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.
How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every
sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit.
*Guardian Summer Reads, 2015*
Bewitching.
*The Times*
Clever and engrossing.
*David Lodge, Sunday Times*
Flawless.
*Observer, Books of the Year*
Witty, intelligent and tirelessly perceptive.
*Evening Standard*
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