Signed by the Booker Prize winning author. Brief Lives is a study of loneliness and a possible antidote, friendship, and considered one of Brookner’s best novels. Brief Lives offers a more immediate emotional connection than usual, a first person narration by Fay, who warns the reader that she is not a nice person.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1990. Hardback. First edition. 217 pages. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Dark brown boards with gilt lettering to spine. Signed to the title page. Fine book in fine dust jacket.