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Author: Anita Brookner
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Author Anita Brookner
Narrator Judith Whale
Duration 8h 45m
Modest, reliable and decorous throughout his life, George Bland faces retirement with uncertainty and solitude, made worse by the early death of his friend Putnam. Into his life comes the invasive and mercurial Katy Gibb, with designs on George that are unquestionably financial. To George however she represents a last chance to abandon discretion a...
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Author Anita Brookner
Narrator Judith Whale
Duration 6h 30m
Sofka Dorn, matriarch of a prosperous German family living in England, rules her four children with a strong hand. Frederick, the eldest son, is a 'disgracefully charming' ladies' man, adored and indulged by his mother, as is his flirtatious sister Betty. Alfred and Mimi, steady and solitary, are a disappointment, for their mother values boldness a...
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Author Anita Brookner
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 8h 18m
Herz is seventy-three and facing the difficult question: what is he going to do with the rest of his life? How is it all going to end? He could propose marriage to an old friend he hasn't seen for thirty years; he could travel, he could make a trip to Paris to see a favourite painting; he could sell his flat, move, start afresh. He must do somethin...
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Author Anita Brookner
Narrator Kevin Moore
Duration 8h
Whilst holidaying in a sleepy village on the Franco-Swiss border, middle-aged solicitor Alan Sherwood catches a glimpse of a woman on the platform of the station, who reminds him of a woman he once passionately loved - an elusive and irresistible woman called Sarah Miller, who had never returned his feelings.
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