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Undue Influence
- Narrated by: Diana Quick
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Undue Influence is the 19th novel by Anita Brookner, the Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel du Lac.
Enigmatic Claire is 30 and lives alone. When she meets Martin Gibson, a faded scholar, she becomes inordinately interested. She is even more interested when she meets his wife, a far more spectacular personality. But the unexpected news of this woman's death releases emotions that were not entirely foreseen.
Anita Brookner was born in South London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her 24th, Strangers, in 2009. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.
Critic Reviews
"Her technique as a novelist is so sure and so quietly commanding." (Hilary Mantel, Guardian)
"She is one of the great writers of contemporary fiction." (Literary Review)
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- Kirsten Rose
- 14-11-2021
Precise, poignant, elegant
Austere and intelligent, this is in my opinion one of Anita Brookner's better books. It is written with powerful, concise prose by a mind whose apprehension of human nature is like a steel trap. The reading by Diana Quick is elegant and well articulated. Her reading achieves beautiful expressiveness without being so overt as to detract from the pure enjoyment of the prose. That's rare. I enjoyed this audiobook at least twenty times until many of the phrases (which often seemed to have a prescience relevant to my own life) were etched into my memory.
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