A Misalliance by Anita Brookner c1986 First Edition

Description

In Anita Brookner’s 1986 novel, Blanche Vernon struggles to reconstruct her life after being abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. Set against a sterile London backdrop, the story follows Blanche’s attempts at stoicism and her unexpected involvement with a manipulative young mother and a silent child. Brookner masterfully explores themes of loneliness, the burden of virtue, and the painful gap between intellectual self-sufficiency and the primal need for human connection.