Anita Brookner: 32 books

Despite growing up with a widowed and reclusive mother, young Zoë Cunningham retains an unshakable faith in storybook happy endings. When her mother, Anne, finally decides to remarry, Zoë is thrilled with her prospective stepfather, Simon Gould, who is not only wealthy, but also kind and generous....

A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and pleasures of the lives of a glittering couple, only to find her hopes of companionship and happiness shattered.

Facing life alone at an advanced age, Julius Herz cannot shake the sense that he should be elsewhere, doing other things. Walking through bustling streets that seem increasingly alien to him, he’s confronted by life’s pressing questions with an urgency he has never known before: what do we owe...

Betsy ed Elisabeth sono due giovani donne nell’Inghilterra degli anni Settanta, un’epoca in cui a Londra, come in tutte le capitali europee, la ribellione dilaga e la giovinezza sembra per la prima volta una conquista permanente. Amiche di scuola che andavano a prendere il tè l’una nella casa...