Undue Influence by Anita Brookner

Undue Influence by Anita Brookner

'People are mysterious. And they do reveal mysterious connections. But sometimes one is merely anxious to alter the script. It was not the first time I had been guilty of a misapprehension'

At twenty-nine, Claire Pitt is single but not inexperienced. Attracted to Martin Gibson, a former academic married to a beautiful, manipulative invalid, she and her friend Wiggy are drawn deeper into his world. When Martin is widowed, Claire sees a possible future for herself and begins to make plans. But Martin is both more and less than he appears, as Claire is about to discover . . .

'All of Brookner's novels are great. But this is one of the best' Independent on Sunday

How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit* Tessa Hadley on A Start in Life, Guardian Summer Reads, 2015 *
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 *
Her technique as a novelist is so sure and so quietly commanding. * Hilary Mantel, Guardian *

Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and after holding a post as a professor at Cambridge University and spending several years in Paris, she 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. In 1984, she won the Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner published a number of volumes of art criticism. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1990. She died in 2016 at the age of 87.

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ISBN 13	9780241977828
ISBN 10	0241977827
Title	Undue Influence
Author	Anita Brookner
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2016-06-02
Number of pages	224
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