The Rules of Engagement

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [iv], 247, [1 (blank)]. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine.

Signed by Author to title page.

Brookner's twenty-second novel. A tale of two women, friends since youth, and the decisions and men that define their paths in life. 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). "[O]ne of the finest novelists of her generation." –The New York Times