People are mysterious. And they do reveal mysterious connections. But sometimes one is merely anxious to alter the script. It was not the first time I had been guilty of a misapprehensionAt 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 . . .All of Brookners novels are great. But this is one of the best Independent on Sunday
Literature for me was a magnificent destiny for which I was not yet fully prepared.Paul and Henrietta Manning and their solitary, academic daughter Jane have nothing in common with Dolly, widow of Henriettas brother. Corseted and painted, Dolly is a frivolous, superficial woman, who has little time for those without that inestimable quality - charm. Jane, in particular, falls into this category, especially after the death of her parents. But Jane has money - and a conscience - and these bind her to Dolly. Through disagreements, disappointments and disapprovals, Jane and Dolly are enmeshed in an uneasy alliance in which history and family create closer ties than friendship ever could.
Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating spinsterhood is renewed ...
Una historia de familia ( A family romance, 1993) se centra en el contraste entre la vida de la narradora y protagonista, Jane, nacida en los años sesenta, que aspira ante todo a realizarse como ser humano, y su tia Dolly, nacida en 1922, y educada para la vida social y para agradar a los hombres en pos del matrimonio. Pese a tal disparidad generacional de educacion, un reconocimiento y una comprension mutua terminan por unir a estas dos mujeres, cuyo relato se situa principalmente en Londres, pero tambien en Paris y Bruselas.
