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A Closed Eye by Anita Brookner
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Naive and undemanding, Harriet Lytton expects very little of life and that is what she recieves. Married to a respectable man old enough to be her father, Harriet's only taste of passion comes when she meets Jack Peckham, the unruly, attractive husband of her friend Tessa. Tessa and Harriet have for man ...Show more
A Friend from England by Anita Brookner
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When Rachel becomes involved in the lives of the Livingstones it is with an acute appreciation of their home - beautifully furnished and richly decorated. They have won an undisclosed amount of money on the football pools. But rather than enjoy their new-found wealth, seem sadly resigned to it. They do, ...Show more
A Misalliance by Anita Brookner
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
Blanche Vernon was not quite a widow. When her husband Bertie deserted her for a bubbly younger woman in her twenties, she was denied the solace of grief. Instead she visited the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection, cultivating her brittle sensibilities and keeping her feelings at bay.
A Private View by Anita Brookner
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Modest and reliable throughout his life, George Bland faces retirement with uncertainty, an uncertainnty compounded by the death of his friend, Putnam. However his life will alter dramatically with the arrival of the invasive and mercenary Katy Gibb.
Altered States by Anita Brookner
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"Like many of Brookner's 15 previous novels (including, most recently, Incidents in the Rue Laugier, 1996), this one focuses on particularly bright, despairingly self-aware members of the British upper-middle class and upper class caught unawares in hapless romances. The retrospective narrative is told ...Show more
BRIEF LIVES by Anita Brookner
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'I never liked her, nor did she like me; strange, then, how we managed to keep up a sort of friendship for so long.' Fay Langdon has relinquished her singing career to marry Owen, a highly successful solicitor. At one of their dinner parties Fay meets the glamorous, self-obsessed Julia and is destined ...Show more
Latecomers by Anita Brookner
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Hartmann was a German, Fibich an orphan of World War II.... A novel about human relationships, focusing, unusually for Brookner, on two male characters. Hartmann and Fibich met at school and 40 years later they can no more think of living apart than of divorcing their wives. This book deals with their g ...Show more
Lewis Percy by Anita Brookner
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'The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.' Destined to be a haunter of libraries, Lewis's cautious progress through life reveals to him only his own shortcomings. Estran ...Show more
The Bay of Angels by Anita Brookner
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Despite growing up with a widowed and reclusive mother, young Zo Cunningham retains an unshakable faith in storybook happy endings. When her mother, Anne, finally decides to remarry, Zo is thrilled with her prospective stepfather, Simon Gould, who is not only wealthy, but also kind and generous. Simon's ...Show more
Undue Influence by Anita Brookner
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In Undue Influence, acclaimed novelist Anita Brookner proves once again that even in the most closely circumscribed of lives, hearts can venture into unknown-and potentially explosive-territory. Claire Pitt is nothing if not a practical young woman, living a life in contemporary London that is to all ap ...Show more
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