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The 2005 Award

The Rules of Engagement

The Rules of Engagement
by Anita Brookner

 

Nominated by:

  • Veria Central Public Library,
    Greece
  • M.I. Rudomino State Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow, Russia

 

Publisher of Nominated Editions:
Viking ISBN 0670914363
Random House ISBN 1400061652

 

the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors
ABOUT THE BOOK
They shared the same Christian name and they started school together on the same day. One girl stayed as plain Elizabeth, while it was decreed that the other would be Betsy. Naturally, they became friends of a sort. Many years later they still meet - different lives and loves, different choices have marked them. Elizabeth is safely married to a man many years her senior, whilst Betsy has allied herself with someone she barely knows. Yet the consequences of those choices, spelled out so long ago, have still to haunt them.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anita Brookner was born in London in 1928. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988. She is the author of twenty one previous novels including Hotel du Lac, Family and Friends, A Private View, Incidents in the Rue Laugier, Altered States, Falling Slowly and Undue Influence.


 

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