ANITA BROOKNER

A pebble in my pocket

I read or re-read all the novels the year she died (2016) and thought I had made up my mind about them once and for all. But you never really have, have you ? Books don’t change but you do, so, ten years later, I began again.

I have always felt warmly towards Brookner, for two reasons. She reviewed all of my Simon Serrailler crime novels as they came ou…