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  • Published: 17 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241977774
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $29.99

Look At Me




The third novel from the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac

'Once a thing is known it can never be unknown.'

By day Frances Hinton works in a medical library, by night she haunts the room of a West London mansion flat. Everything changes, however, when she is adopted by charming Nick and his dazzling wife Alix. They draw her into their tight circle of friends. Suddenly, Frances' life is full and ripe with new engagements. But too late, Frances realises that she may be only a play thing, to be picked up and discarded once used. And that just one act in defiance of Alix's wishes could see her lose everything . . .

  • Published: 17 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241977774
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $29.99

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.

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Praise for Look At Me

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

Bewitching.

The Times

Clever and engrossing.

David Lodge, Sunday Times

Flawless.

Observer, Books of the Year

Witty, intelligent and tirelessly perceptive.

Evening Standard