Her most recent non-fiction book is Romanticism and Its Discontents (2000), and her most recent novel is Strangers (2009). The Rules of Engagement (2003), her twenty-second novel, is a story about friendship and choices.A Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge, Anita Brookner lives in London. The Bay of Angels (2001), concerns a single woman coming to terms with a new sense of freedom when her widowed mother re-marries and moves abroad. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order. Hotel du Lac (1984), won the Booker Prize for Fiction and was adapted for television in 1986. Read reviews and buy Hotel Du Lac - (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner (Paperback) at Target. Jean Webster 0.00 0 ratings0 reviews Never before in the history of his connection with the Hotel du Lac had Gustavo encountered such a munificent, companionable, expansive, entertaining, ‘thoroughly’ unique and inexplicable guest Even the fact that he was American scarcely accounted for everything. She became the first woman to be named as Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge University in 1967.Her first novel, A Start in Life, was published in 1981. Hotel du Lac Paperback Maby Anita Brookner (Author) 1,100 ratings Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 100.00 3 Used from 39.86 2 New from 100.00 Paperback 41.56 25 Used from 2.51 1 New from 41.56 1 Collectible from 5.99 Audio, Cassette Pocket Book from 95.65 2 Used from 95. She spent three years studying in Paris as a postgraduate, and went on to lecture in art at Reading University and the Courtauld Institute, where she specialized in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French art.

I just find it hard to believe that this was the best British book of 1984.

She studied at King's College, London and at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. But Ms Brookner is a terrific writer and the book is a brisk enjoyable read. Novelist and art historian, Dr Anita Brookner, was born in London on 16 July 1928.

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