Hotel du Lac won the 1984 Booker Prize.Back in the 80’s, the Hotel du Lac – a Swiss property of which no-one had ever heard – unexpectedly found itself catapulted to international fame after Anita Brookner’s novel of the same name appeared. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. It is also humorous, witty, touching and formidably clever' The Times 'Hotel du Lac is written with a beautiful grave formality, and it catches at the heart' Observer 'Her technique as a novelist is so sure and so quietly commanding' Hilary Mantel, Guardian 'She is one of the great writers of contemporary fiction' Literary Review Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now'Spectator 'A smashing love story. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating spinsterhood is renewed. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. Language eng Summary Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams.
Label Hotel du Lac Title Hotel du Lac Statement of responsibility Anita Brookner Creator As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism
Summary Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams.
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