Hotel Du Lac Anita Brookner by Anita Brookner 9780141935850, 9780140147476, 0141935855, 0140147470, B002RUA54W instant download after payment.

Anita Brookner’s Booker Prize-winning novel focuses on a novelist who has taken refuge from life in a hotel on the misty shores of Lake Geneva.

"Her technique as a novelist is so sure and so quietly commanding."  -  Hilary Mantel, The Guardian UK

Edith Hope writes romance novels under a pseudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, however, Edith flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to restore her to her senses. But instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love’s casualties and exiles. She also attracts the attention of a worldly man determined to release her unused capacity for mischief and pleasure.

"A smashing love story. It is very romantic. It is also humorous, witty, touching and formidably clever."  -  The Times

Anita Brookner has written 24 books over the course of 28 years. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her final one, Strangers, in 2009. She trained as an art historian and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. Hotel du Lac won the 1984 Booker Prize. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.