Falling Slowly
Author: Brookner, Anita
ISBN: 9780241977811
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 01 Sep 2016
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
A reissue of the 1998 novel from the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac
Sisters Beatrice and Miriam have each other, but they were never close. Beatrice is a pianist, a romantic, while Miriam is disillusioned after a failed marriage. Living together yet failing to confide in one another, each is haunted by the mistakes they have made and the opportunities squandered.
Both know that one day they will be forced to part, that they will each fall alone. So when Beatrice contemplates a future with Max, Miriam wonders whether the time has come sooner than she believed . . .
ISBN: 9780241977811
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 01 Sep 2016
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
A reissue of the 1998 novel from the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac
Sisters Beatrice and Miriam have each other, but they were never close. Beatrice is a pianist, a romantic, while Miriam is disillusioned after a failed marriage. Living together yet failing to confide in one another, each is haunted by the mistakes they have made and the opportunities squandered.
Both know that one day they will be forced to part, that they will each fall alone. So when Beatrice contemplates a future with Max, Miriam wonders whether the time has come sooner than she believed . . .
