Author:Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner's first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.'
Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intelligent and lonely. Studying the heroines of Balzac in order to discover where her own childhood and adult life has gone awry, she seeks not salvation but enlightenment.
Yet in revisiting her London upbringing, her friendships and doomed Parisian love affairs, she wonders if perhaps there might not be a chance for a new start in life . . .
Excellent
—— Sunday TimesEnormously sophisticated, knowing, often very funny tragi-comedy
—— Financial TimesHow can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit.
—— Tessa Hadley , Guardian Summer Reads, 2015A delight, amusing, beautifully written.
—— The TimesEnormously sophisticated, knowing, often very funny tragi-comedy.
—— Financial TimesExcellent, brilliantly drawn.
—— Sunday TimesA gorgeous, heart-warming and life-affirming delight
—— Rachael LucasIt made me want to seize the day! Life affirming with a very happy ending.
—— Jo ThomasI LOVED this book SO MUCH! It by far surpasses me saying that it's my favourite Cathy Bramley...just amazing. I can't tell you how refreshing it was
—— Donna Trinder - Bookish Bits BlogA joyous thing to read.
—— Press AssociationEngaging characters, a stately home and a sweeping romance. This is delightful!
—— Katie FfordeClever, intriguing, chilling - and utterly impossible to put down
—— Grazia on When We Were FriendsTaut, compelling . . . a storming read
—— The Bookseller Books of the Year 2013 on One Step Too FarOne Step Too Far is a genius tale with a twist
—— StylistA whip-smart thriller that keeps you guessing right up until the final shocking twist
—— Mirror on One Step Too FarPitoniak maintains her keen eye for the universal insecurities facing her generation today, from romantic uncertainties and the relative benefits and downsides of hedge fund and nonprofit jobs to the emotional effort it requires to negotiate the predetermined facts of one's upbringing with the person one chooses to become
—— Harper's BazaarPitoniak's debut focuses on that time of life that is at turns both exhilarating and terrifying: right after getting out of college, when you're forced to confront who you are and who you want to be, when you know life is just beginning, but you're also starting to feel like many of your options are fading away
—— Best New Books of 2017 , NylonPitoniak's precise and incisive powers of observation gives us a book with startling grace notes
—— NPR.orgAnna Pitoniak's inspired debut centers on two recent college grads who move to New York City together during the 2008 recession and watch their relationship change drastically
—— InstyleThe One is one of a kind – and singularly good.
—— Barbara CopperthwaiteA fresh, compelling, psychological thriller that will keep you guessing!
—— Mandy Baggotinsanely brilliant
—— Gillian McAllisterpacy, thrilling and very original. The plot is fabulous
—— Askews NewsletterA page-turning psychological thriller with a difference, this is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.
—— Irish Examiner
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