Brief Lives
Author: Brookner, Anita
ISBN: 9780241979396
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 01 Dec 2016
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
Novel from the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac
Fay Langdon has relinquished her singing career to marry Owen, a highly successful solicitor. At one of their dinner parties Fay meets the glamorous, self-obsessed Julia and is destined to join the handful of acolytes who provide Julia with ammunition for her merciless scorn and disapprobation.
As the years pass and Fay and Julia's lives grow empty of purpose, they are drawn together by their fear of age and isolation. Yet a mutual mistrust continues to exist between them until Fay is driven to one last heroic act.
ISBN: 9780241979396
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 01 Dec 2016
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
Novel from the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac
Fay Langdon has relinquished her singing career to marry Owen, a highly successful solicitor. At one of their dinner parties Fay meets the glamorous, self-obsessed Julia and is destined to join the handful of acolytes who provide Julia with ammunition for her merciless scorn and disapprobation.
As the years pass and Fay and Julia's lives grow empty of purpose, they are drawn together by their fear of age and isolation. Yet a mutual mistrust continues to exist between them until Fay is driven to one last heroic act.
