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  • Published: 19 December 2013
  • ISBN: 9780241965542
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

Falling Slowly





Beatrice and Miriam are sisters, sharing little except a traditional childhood that has left them burdened with unhappy memories.

Beatrice is a pianist, a romantic, who believes in love, while Miriam, who married the rather colourless Jonathan Eldon for pragmatic reasons, companionship, status, is not beyond disillusionment. Following her divorce, she returns to Beatrice, who is beginning to appear fragile. While they share a home and a few acquaintances, neither confides to the other what is in their hearts.

For the beautiful Beatrice, now prepared to settle for friendship and closeness rather than passion, there is Max and the hope of the carving a contented future with him. For Miriam there is love and esteem - and, finally, certainty.

  • Published: 19 December 2013
  • ISBN: 9780241965542
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

About the author

Anita Brookner

Date: 2013-08-06
Anita Brookner, who is an international authority on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century painting, teaches at the Courtauld Institute of Art. In 1968 she was Slade Professor at Cambridge, the first woman ever to hold this position. She is the author of Watteau, The Genius of the Future; Greuze; Jacques-Louis David; and three other novels, A Start in Life, Providence and Look at Me.

Anita Brookner was born in London and, apart from several years in Paris, has lived there ever since. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988. Leaving Home is her twenty-third novel.

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Praise for Falling Slowly

She is one of the handful of living writers who can turn a sentence so graceful that to read it is a lascivious pleasure

Sunday Times

A sensationally good writer

Julie Myerson, Mail on Sunday
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