Anita Brookner’s novel Hotel du Lac won the Booker Prize in 1984. Her fiction includes Providence, Look at Me, Brief Lives, A Private View, The Bay of Angels, Leaving Home, and most recently, At the Hairdressers.
‘The bride and groom were there all the time, in the centre, as they should be. A good-looking couple. But lifeless, figures from stock.’
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