I know all that, and know that it leaves you lonely. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand affair, the world well lost for love. 'I have been listening to that particular accusation for most of my life. 'You are a romantic, Edith,' repeated Mr Neville, with a smile. My idea of absolute happiness is to sit in a hot garden all day, reading or writing, utterly safe in the knowledge that the person I love will come home to me in the evening. I cannot think or act or speak or write or even dream with any kind of energy in the absence of love. I mean that I cannot live well without it. I mean something far more serious than that. Oh, I do not mean that I go into a decline, develop odd symptoms, become a caricature. “You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love, Edith.' ― Anita Brookner, quote from Hotel du Lac An evening walk, arm in arm, in fine weather. No, what I crave is the simplicity of routine.
I do not mean that I go into a decline, develop odd symptons, became a caricature. You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.“A woman owes it to herself to have pretty things. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. "She is one of the great writers of contemporary fiction".
"Her technique as a novelist is so sure and so quietly commanding". "Hotel du Lac is written with a beautiful grave formality, and it catches at the heart".
It is also humorous, witty, touching and formidably clever".
a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now". But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating spinsterhood is renewed."A classic. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Hotel du Lac is the classic Booker Prize winning novel by Anita Brookner.
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