The Bay Of Angels
  • Published: 1 September 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241977835
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $24.99

The Bay Of Angels

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17 Dec 2013
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1 Sep 2016
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A reissue of the 2001 novel from the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning 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. However, the long enchanted visits to France she enjoys come to an abrupt end when Simon suffers a bad fall. Zoë and her mother, finding themselves surrounded by well-meaning strangers, must learn how and how not to trust appearances . . .
  • Published: 1 September 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241977835
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $24.99
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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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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 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
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