Reviews round-up
Anita Brookner
by Hermione Lee
6 of 6 critics positive
8 reviews: 3 raves, 3 positives; 2 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
“exhilarating biography pieces together the elusive life”
Anita Brookner — a beguiling portrait of a maddeningly inscrutable writer
“this masterful biography”
Anita Brookner: Art and Life by Hermione Lee
“magisterial biography, Anita Brookner: Art and Life, captures her perfectly”
The tortured genius of Anita Brookner, ‘the world’s loneliest woman’
“an enigmatic literary great given her due”
Anita Brookner by Hermione Lee review – an enigmatic literary great given her due
“A loving, careful and worthwhile biography of an evasive life”
Anita Brookner: Art & Life by Hermione Lee – A loving, careful and worthwhile biography of an evasive life
“doing her the service of leaving all her mystery intact”
In search of Anita Brookner
The life of Anita Brookner, the ‘aloof spinster’ who wrote Hotel du Lac
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