Hotel Du Lac; Family and Friends

The first-ever hardcover omnibus of two of the best novels by the beloved, Booker Prize-winning writer—just in time for a major new biography by Hermione Lee

Anita Brookner is known for her poignant, witty studies of emotionally restrained women navigating loneliness, deception, and desire.

When middle-aged romance writer Edith Hope’s life begins to resemble the melodramatic plots of her own novels, her friends banish her to Switzerland, where they hope the luxurious calm of the Hotel du Lac...