Anita Brookner
29 books · Anita Brookner
‘Excellent’ Sunday Times ‘Enormously sophisticated’ Financial Times 'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.' Dr Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intelligent and lonely. Studying the heroines of Balzac in order to discover where her own childhood and adult life has gone awry, she seeks not salvation but enlightenment.
