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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.
Miss Brookner's most absorbing novel . . . graceful and attractive * New York Times * Her technique as a novelist is so sure and so quietly commanding * Hilary Mantel, Guardian * Hotel du Lac is written with a beautiful grave formality, and it catches at the heart * Observer * The last great novelist of the 20th century * Daily Telegraph * A classic . . . a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now * Spectator * A smashing love story. It is very romantic. It is also humorous, witty, touching and formidably clever * The Times * She is one of the great writers of contemporary fiction * Literary Review *
