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The Bay Of Angels
  • Published: 17 December 2013
  • ISBN: 9780241965528
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

The Bay Of Angels

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1 Sept 2016
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17 Dec 2013
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THE SUBLIME TWENTIETH NOVEL BY THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF HOTEL DU LAC

'It was at Millie's party, on that Friday evening, that she met her second husband, my stepfather-to-be, and thus changed both our lives . . .'

Zoë is delighted when her widowed mother marries Simon, a generous older man who owns a villa in Nice. She is enchanted by the visits to France that follow, but they come to an abrupt end when Simon suffers a bad fall. Finding themselves thrust into uncertainty and surrounded by well-meaning strangers, Zoë and her mother must learn how - and how not - to trust appearances . . .
  • Published: 17 December 2013
  • ISBN: 9780241965528
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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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 The Bay Of Angels

Tough, cogent writing, without sentimentality, and its polish never masks its realism. ... Brookner reveals herself as a European novelist and a major one.'

Helen Dunmore, The Times

With a steelier grip than almost any other writer, Brookner always reaches out and pulls you in. Her talent for immersing you in the pinched, emotional life of her characters is unparalleled... Her understanding of female loneliness is heart-clenching.

Julie Myerson, Mail on Sunday

Achieved with the subtle brilliance for which Booker Prize-winning Brookner has received such acclaim... It is highly unlikely you will read a finer piece of literature this year

Scotland on Sunday

What a relief it is to read this beautifully crafted prose

Daily Express

One of Brookner's most subtle, original and emotionally resonant works... She subverts expectations again

Sunday Telegraph