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Hotel du Lac
  • Published: 15 August 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241996560
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $24.99

Hotel du Lac

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Paperback
15 Aug 2023
Paperback
24 Feb 1994
EBook
27 May 1999
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Anita Brookner's best-known and bestselling Man Booker Prize-winning novel - now a Penguin Essential

The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing, the respected patrons of an earlier era'

Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating loneliness is renewed . . .
  • Published: 15 August 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241996560
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $24.99
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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 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 Hotel du Lac

A classic . . . a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now

Spectator

A smashing love story. It is very romantic. It is also humorous, witty, touching and formidably clever

The Times

Hotel du Lac is written with a beautiful grave formality, and it catches at the heart

Observer

Her technique as a novelist is so sure and so quietly commanding

Hilary Mantel, Guardian

She is one of the great writers of contemporary fiction

Literary Review

Miss Brookner's most absorbing novel . . . graceful and attractive

New York Times

The last great novelist of the 20th century

Daily Telegraph