The Debut
by Anita Brookner | 
A Start in Life
by Anita Brookner | 
Fraud
by Anita Brookner | 
Making Things Better
by Anita Brookner | 
Lewis Percy
by Anita Brookner | 
A Closed Eye
by Anita Brookner | 
A Friend from England
by Anita Brookner | 
Altered States
by Anita Brookner | 
A Private View
by Anita Brookner | 
Undue Influence
by Anita Brookner | 
The Rules of Engagement
by Anita Brookner | 
Incidents in the Rue Laugier
by Anita Brookner | 
Take Me With You
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo | 
Anne of Windy Poplars
by Lucy Maud Montgomery | 
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes | 
Out Stealing Horses
by Per Petterson | 
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by David Eggers | 
2666
by Roberto Bolano | 
Buying the Farm
by Kimberly Conn |
Brookner again shows herself to be the consummate observer of social nuance in this deeply felt chronicle of an unlikely friendship between the flamboyant, ego-centric Julia and modest, self-effacing Fay, the narrator. Thrust together by their husbands' business partnership and by their sharing of a guilty secret, these two women form an intense and intimate bond that highlights their uneasy compromises with each other -- and with life itself.