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BORING

I just couldnt get into this book. Pages and pages of the heroines thoughts, and infrequent action. A good plot, but could have been handled a lot better. I didnt even finish it!

Disappointment

I was first attracted by the topic of this book but never managed to get into it. Even worse, the more I was reading, the more I grew to dislike it! The characters are dull, boring, too self centred and the plot, well, is there one? Also, the style is convoluted and pompous. I do not like the way it depicts women either as victims with no hope for a brighter life or as manipulative witches like Constance. Men are not better though!!! They are either cheats or dull old bores. I am normally an avid and easy to please reader, but this is the worst book I have read in years!

Brookner is back!

This is another triumph for the author. I did not much care for her last effort (the only one out of a then 21 novels). This is vintage Brookner: lots of moral ambiguity, incisive writing, wonderful characters (Elizabeth, Betsy and Digby and Nigel), long lonely walks, and the marvelously predatory Edmund and Constance. Elizabeth, the main character, is an issue from a disastrous marriage, a first in the Brookner ouvre if I remember correctly. This then is the basis for a lot of exposition on "damage" which rounds out the novel nicely. Among the other motives is the idea of childhood and youth friendships which resonates throughout. The sex scenes are more frequent, detailed and even steamy--but remember, this isnt Judith Krantz. This is certainly worthy of a reread soon.