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A Start in Life
  • Published: 5 November 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241976500
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176

A Start in Life

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17 Oct 2016
EBook
5 Nov 2015
Paperback
1 June 2017
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The first novel from the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac

'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.'

Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intelligent and lonely. Studying the heroines of Balzac in order to discover where her own childhood and adult life has gone awry, she seeks not salvation but enlightenment.

Yet in revisiting her London upbringing, her friendships and doomed Parisian love affairs, she wonders if perhaps there might not be a chance for a new start in life . . .
  • Published: 5 November 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241976500
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176
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About the author

Anita Brookner

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.
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A Closed Eye
Fraud
Incidents in the Rue Laugier
Altered States
A Family Romance
A Private View
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Praise for A Start in Life

Excellent

Sunday Times

Enormously sophisticated, knowing, often very funny tragi-comedy

Financial Times

How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit.

Tessa Hadley, Guardian Summer Reads, 2015

A delight, amusing, beautifully written.

The Times

Enormously sophisticated, knowing, often very funny tragi-comedy.

Financial Times

Excellent, brilliantly drawn.

Sunday Times