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The Rules of Engagement
Anita Brookner
  • Published: 1 November 2004
  • ISBN: 9780141910222
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

The Rules of Engagement

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The twenty second novel by Booker Prize winning author of Hotel du Lac Anita Brookner.

The Rules of Engagement is the twenty second novel by Booker Prize winning author of Hotel du Lac Anita Brookner.

Elizabeth and Betsy are old school friends. Born in 1948 and unready for the sixties, they had high hopes of the lives they would lead, even though their circumstances were so different.

When they meet again in their thirties, Elizabeth, married to the safe, older Digby is relieving the boredom of a cosy but childless marriage with an affair. Betsy seems to have found real romance in Paris. Are their lives taking off, or are they just making more of the wrong choices without even realising it?
  • Published: 1 November 2004
  • ISBN: 9780141910222
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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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

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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 Rules of Engagement

Elegant, utterly persuasive . . . Brookner resembles no other novelist writing today

Scotsman

Splendid, melancholy . . . an unflinching examination of the manouevres of the heart. Brookner writes mesmerisingly well

Spectator

One of the most observant moralists writing today. A dark, wintry work and there is plenty here to satisfy Brookner's fans

Guardian
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