We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed.

Ongoing Covid restrictions, reduced air and freight capacity, high volumes and winter weather conditions are all impacting transportation and local delivery across the globe. Rest of the World - Tracked and Signed 10-15 working days.Rest of the World - Standard 15-20 working days.Europe - Tracked and Signed 4-7 working days.Free Click and Collect at Daunt Books Marylebone.If one or more items are not available when you place your order there may be a delay in dispatch, so that we can send your items in as few parcels as possible. Items are usually dispatched within twenty-four to seventy-two hours. Orders are processed and dispatched Monday to Friday. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. It is also humorous, witty, touching and formidably clever’ The Times’Hotel du Lac is written with a beautiful grave formality, and it catches at the heart’ Observer’Her technique as a novelist is so sure and so quietly commanding’ Hilary Mantel, Guardian’She is one of the great writers of contemporary fiction’ Literary ReviewAnita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now’ Spectator’A smashing love story. 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. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now’ Spectator%%%Hotel du Lac is the classic Booker Prize winning novel by Anita Brookner.

But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating loneliness is renewed. Winner of the Booker Prize’The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing, the respected patrons of an earlier era’Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams.

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