Overview
'It was at Millie's party, on that Friday evening, that she met her second husband, my stepfather-to-be, and thus changed both our lives . . .'Zoë is delighted when her widowed mother marries Simon, a generous older man who owns a villa in Nice. However, the long enchanted visits to France she enjoys come to an abrupt end when Simon suffers a bad fall. Zoë and her mother, finding themselves surrounded by well-meaning strangers, must learn how and how not to trust appearances . . . 'One of her very best - possibly her finest . . . reverberates long after it's put down ... Brookner in all her wisdom, eloquence and power' Spectator
''It was at Millie''s party, on that Friday evening, that she met her second husband, my stepfather-to-be, and thus changed both our lives . . .''
Zoë is delighted when her widowed mother marries Simon, a generous older man who owns a villa in Nice. However, the long enchanted visits to France she enjoys come to an abrupt end when Simon suffers a bad fall. Zoë and her mother, finding themselves surrounded by well-meaning strangers, must learn how and how not to trust appearances . . .
''One of her very best - possibly her finest . . . reverberates long after it''s put down ... Brookner in all her wisdom, eloquence and power'' Spectator
- | Author: Anita Brookner
- | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- | Publication Date: Jun 02, 2016
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780241977835
- | ISBN-10: 0241977835
