Leaving Home
  • Published: 19 December 2013
  • ISBN: 9780241965511
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176

Leaving Home

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Emma Roberts leaves home for the first time in her twenties, travelling to Paris to study seventeenth-century garden design. There, she meets vivacious Françoise Desnoyers and is quickly drawn into her passionate and complicated world.

But Françoise's demands - deceiving her formidable mother over a love affair - leave Emma feeling exposed and vulnerable, and yearning for the safety and comfort of her London home. Yet when an unexpected family tragedy turns that life upside down, Emma comes to realize the impossibility of returning to a home you have already left behind...
  • Published: 19 December 2013
  • ISBN: 9780241965511
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176
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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 Leaving Home

Enthralling... so beautifully observed... as captivating as any thriller

Marie Claire

Spare and devastating, powerful. Brookner is an unflinching novelist who writes beautifully and fearlessly

Independent

Elegiac ... its magnificent final sentence is among the most moving of Brooknerian conclusions

New Statesman

Clever and elegant

Sunday Times

So well done - so carefully is the novel wrought - that reading it offers deep and enduring pleasure

Scotsman

Brookner is brilliant ... readers will not be disappointed. Her women are very real, more recognizable and more human than any obviously loveable character could hope to be

Sunday Herald
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