As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988.

Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. 'She is one of the great writers of contemporary fiction'. The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing, the respected patrons of an earlier era. 'Her technique as a novelist is so sure and so quietly commanding'. 100.00 8 Used from 18.95 2 New from 100.00. 'Hotel du Lac is written with a beautiful grave formality, and it catches at the heart'. It is also humorous, witty, touching and formidably clever'. a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now'.

But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating spinsterhood is renewed.'A classic. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single.īut among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating loneliness is renewed.Hotel du Lac is the classic Booker Prize winning novel by Anita Brookner. Winner of the Booker Prize 'The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing, the respected patrons of an earlier era' Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Used - Fair: Worn book that has complete text pages but may have some small defect like slight tears. Used - Good: Average used worn book that has all pages or leaves present.

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