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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.
Impressive. Beautifully written with flashes of charm and wisdom * Sunday Times * Infinitely moving * Literary Review * Beautifully written, it draws you in and holds you fast * Daily Mail * Brookner has no rivals when it comes to anatomizing complex emotions. Without question, an exceptional piece of writing. * Sunday Telegraph * Brookner is a brilliant writer, her prose near perfect, and she captures extremely poignantly the loneliness, the anxieties, the insecurity of old age. * Sunday Independent * Brookner is a great novelist * Evening Standard *
