Visitors by Anita Brookner

Visitors by Anita Brookner 

Dorothea May has had a reclusive life, particularly since the death of her husband Henry some fifteen years ago. Genteel, faint-hearted and solitary, her closest relatives are Henry's cousin, the imperious Kitty, and her husband Austin. When Kitty's granddaughter comes to London to marry, Dorothea is bullied into providing a room for Steve, the best man, thus plunging her into a world of youth that she finds both puzzling and transforming.

'One of the best things Brookner has done... Brookner, skilful and compassionate as ever, reveals her old-fashioned moral code to be both honourable and horrific' Time Out 

'Like Jane Austen, this novelist works on a little square of ivory rather than a broad canvas ... Like Virginia Woolf, her aim is not to draw characters in the round, but to reveal psychological reality in the deep' The Times 

'Brookner's novels are seductively deceptive. Swirling underneath their elegance and order are huge, if guarded reservoirs of turbulence' Daily Mail

Details

• Paperback
• ISBN: 9780140264265
• Condition: Good
  
• Publisher: Penguin Fiction