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First edition. 8vo. Pp. [iv], 236. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt titles to spine; blue endpapers.

Author's seventeenth novel. A widow's quiet resignation to fate is challenged by the arrogance of youth on the eve of an eventful wedding. By the Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel du Lac (1984). Highly regarded as a stylist, Brookner published roughly a novel a year since her literary debut A Start in Life (1981). Trained as an art historian at the Courtauld Institute of Art, she worked there as a Reader until her retirement in 1988. As well as fiction, she published a number of volumes of art criticism. In 1990 Brookner was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). "A superb storyteller in her prime." –The Globe and Mail