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Falling Slowly
  • Published: 1 September 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241977811
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $19.99

Falling Slowly

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19 Dec 2013
Paperback
1 Sept 2016
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A reissue of the 1998 novel from the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac

Sisters Beatrice and Miriam have each other, but they were never close. Beatrice is a pianist, a romantic, while Miriam is disillusioned after a failed marriage. Living together yet failing to confide in one another, each is haunted by the mistakes they have made and the opportunities squandered.

Both know that one day they will be forced to part, that they will each fall alone. So when Beatrice contemplates a future with Max, Miriam wonders whether the time has come sooner than she believed . . .
  • Published: 1 September 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241977811
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $19.99
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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 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.

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Also by Anita Brookner

Brief Lives
A Closed Eye
Fraud
Incidents in the Rue Laugier
Altered States
A Family Romance
A Private View
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Praise for Falling Slowly

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

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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