Visitors: The beloved modern classic from the Booker Prize-Winning Author of Hotel du Lac
May 2016 · Penguin UK
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The acclaimed literary novel about family relationships, ageing and generational conflict from the Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel du Lac
Dorothea May lives a quiet, ordered life, content with the routines that have shaped her world. But her tranquillity is disrupted when her friend Kitty Levinson announces the forthcoming marriage of her granddaughter. What’s more, Kitty, in her usual imperious fashion, expects Dorothea to accommodate the bridegroom's friend, Steve Best.
As the wedding approaches, the scene is set for a highly charged conflict of generations, in which the claims of the young are in stark and selfish contrast to the disabling propriety of the old.
Witty and perceptive, Visitors is a vivid exploration of family relationships, ageing, responsibility and social expectations, a modern classic perfect for readers of Penelope Lively and Helen Garner.
The acclaimed literary novel about family relationships, ageing and generational conflict from the Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel du Lac
Dorothea May lives a quiet, ordered life, content with the routines that have shaped her world. But her tranquillity is disrupted when her friend Kitty L...
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About the author
Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and after holding a post as a professor at Cambridge University and spending several years in Paris, she 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. In 1984, she won the Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner published a number of volumes of art criticism. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1990. She died in 2016 at the age of 87.
Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and after holding a post as a professor at Cambridge University and spending several years in Paris, she worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 19...
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