Falling Slowly
  • Published: 1 September 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241977811
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $26.00

Falling Slowly

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19 Dec 2013
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1 Sep 2016
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A reissue of the 1998 novel from the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac

Sisters Beatrice and Miriam have each other, but they were never close. Beatrice is a pianist, a romantic, while Miriam is disillusioned after a failed marriage. Living together yet failing to confide in one another, each is haunted by the mistakes they have made and the opportunities squandered.

Both know that one day they will be forced to part, that they will each fall alone. So when Beatrice contemplates a future with Max, Miriam wonders whether the time has come sooner than she believed . . .
  • Published: 1 September 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241977811
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Anita Brookner

Date: 2013-08-06
Anita Brookner, who is an international authority on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century painting, teaches at the Courtauld Institute of Art. In 1968 she was Slade Professor at Cambridge, the first woman ever to hold this position. She is the author of Watteau, The Genius of the Future; Greuze; Jacques-Louis David; and three other novels, A Start in Life, Providence and Look at Me.

Anita Brookner was born in London and, apart from several years in Paris, has lived there ever since. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988. Leaving Home is her twenty-third novel.

Also by Anita Brookner

Hotel du Lac
Brief Lives
A Closed Eye
Fraud
Incidents In The Rue Laugier
Altered States
A Family Romance
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Praise for Falling Slowly

How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit.

Tessa Hadley, Guardian Summer Reads, 2015

She is one of the handful of living writers who can turn a sentence so graceful that to read it is a lascivious pleasure

Sunday Times

A sensationally good writer

Julie Myerson, Mail on Sunday