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'It was at Millie's party, on that Friday evening, that she met her second husband, my stepfather-to-be, and thus changed both our lives . . .' Zoë is delighted when her widowed mother marries Simon, a generous older man who owns a villa in Nice. However, the long enchanted visits to France she enjoys come to an abrupt end when Simon suffers a bad fall. Zoë and her mother, finding themselves surrounded by well-meaning strangers, must learn how and how not to trust appearances . . . 'One of her very best - possibly her finest . . . reverberates long after it's put down ... Brookner in all her wisdom, eloquence and power' Spectator
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The Bay of Angels, Anita Brookner
- Language
- Released
- 2016
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- The Bay of Angels
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Anita Brookner
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0241977835
- ISBN13
- 9780241977835
- Series
- Tags
- Women, Contemporary Fiction, France, Relationships, Stories, British Literature, Marriage, London, Loss, 21st Century, Letters, Accident, Sadness, 1990s, Balkans, Booker Prize
- Description
- 'It was at Millie's party, on that Friday evening, that she met her second husband, my stepfather-to-be, and thus changed both our lives . . .' Zoë is delighted when her widowed mother marries Simon, a generous older man who owns a villa in Nice. However, the long enchanted visits to France she enjoys come to an abrupt end when Simon suffers a bad fall. Zoë and her mother, finding themselves surrounded by well-meaning strangers, must learn how and how not to trust appearances . . . 'One of her very best - possibly her finest . . . reverberates long after it's put down ... Brookner in all her wisdom, eloquence and power' Spectator