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  • Published: 27 July 2000
  • ISBN: 9780141954639
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

Undue Influence




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

Undue Influence is the nineteenth novel by Booker Prize winning author of Hotel du Lac Anita Brookner.

Enigmatic Claire is 30 and lives alone. When she meets Martin Gibson, a faded scholar, she becomes inordinately interested. She is even more interested when she meets his wife, a far more spectacular personality. But the unexpected news of this woman's death releases emotions that were not entirely foreseen..

  • Published: 27 July 2000
  • ISBN: 9780141954639
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

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 Undue Influence

All of Brookner's novels are great, but this is one of the best . . . Brookner, though acclaimed, deserves more excitement, more rapture from us. Hotel du Lac and the Booker Prize were a long time ago, and it's not her fault if she has bloomed equally brightly every year without fail. I think we're taking her for granted if we don't jump up and celebrate this book right now

Julie Myerson, Independent on Sunday