Author: Brookner, Anita, Dunmore, Helen Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 1 April 2010 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 224 pages196 x 130 x 18 | 164g 'No man is free of his own history' Hartmann and Fibich came to England on the kindertransport. As orphans of the war they were strangers in a strange land. Together, they survived. And in adulthood they have been unable to separate, sharing a successful business.Yet Hartmann's carefully polished manners conceal the past he refuses to think about. While Fibich, a mass of fears and neuroses, can do nothing but remember. Together these two men seek to build a future from the shaky foundations of their own pasts . . .'Like Virginia Woolf, Brookner's aim is not to draw characters in the round, but to reveal psychological reality in the deep' The Times
