'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.'
Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intelligent and lonely. Studying the heroines of Balzac in order to discover where her own childhood and adult life has gone awry, she seeks not salvation but enlightenment.
Yet in revisiting her London upbringing, her friendships and doomed Parisian love affairs, she wonders if perhaps there might not be a chance for a new start in life . . .
| ISBN: | 9780241977750 |
| Publication date: | 27th June 1991 |
| Author: | Anita Brookner |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 176 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary romance Romance / Relationship Stories General Fiction Fiction |