If I moved in with them I would be delivered from the silence of Sundays, and all those terrible public holidays – Christmas, Easter – when I could never, ever, find an adequate means of using up all the available time. Nick Fraser and his wife Alix decide to make her a part of their social life. She works in a medical research library and like many other Brookner heroines, is miserably comfortable with her routine. This is especially comforting since, the once prolific Brookner (at one point a novel a year for about 20 years) seems to have slowed down considerably.įrances Hinton, who hates being called Fanny, is always called Fanny. In fact, I think that Brookner’s novels which can seem superficially similar, have a depth that really makes them worth a second read–and frankly, I can imagine going back to them again and again for the rest of my life. Now with her third novel, Look at Me, I find myself of the same disposition. As much as I have liked all of Brookner’s novels on the first go, I found last year when I re-read those first two, that I liked them even more on a second read. Last year for IABD, I knocked off her first two novels The Debut ( A Start in Life) and Providence.

Having finished all of Brookner’s 24 novels, my intention is to re-read all of them in chronological order. I haven’t read any Anita Brookner since last year’s rather successful International Anita Brookner Day.

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