The Bay of Angels (27 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A
NITA
B
ROOKNER
is the author of twenty beautifully crafted novels, including
Falling Slowly
,
Undue Influence
, and
Hotel du Lac
, which won the Booker Prize. An international authority on eighteenth-century painting, she became the first female Slade Professor at Cambridge University. She lives in London.

This is a work of fiction. The characters and events in it are inventions of the author and do not deptict any real persons or events.

Copyright © 2001 by Anita Brookner

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Brookner, Anita.
The bay of angels: a novel/Anita Brookner.
p.     cm.
1. Mothers and daughters—Fiction.  2. British—France—Fiction.  3. London (England)—Fiction.  4. Nice (France)—Fiction.  5. Young women—Fiction.  6. Widows—Fiction.  I. Title.
PR
6052.
R
5816
B
3 2001      823’.914—dc21      00-054299

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