Undue Influence
  • Published: 1 September 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241977828
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $26.00

Undue Influence

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27 Jul 2000
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A reissue of the 1999 novel from the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac

At twenty-nine, Claire Pitt is single but not inexperienced. Attracted to Martin Gibson, a former academic married to a beautiful, manipulative invalid, she and her friend Wiggy are drawn deeper into his world. When Martin is widowed, Claire sees a possible future for herself and begins to make plans. But Martin is both more and less than he appears, as Claire is about to discover . . .
  • Published: 1 September 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241977828
  • 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 Undue Influence

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

All of Brookner's novels are great, but this is one of the best . . . Brookner, though acclaimed, deserves more excitement, more rapture from us. Hotel du Lac and the Booker Prize were a long time ago, and it's not her fault if she has bloomed equally brightly every year without fail. I think we're taking her for granted if we don't jump up and celebrate this book right now

Julie Myerson, Independent on Sunday

Her technique as a novelist is so sure and so quietly commanding.

Hilary Mantel, Guardian