A Misalliance

My first Brookner, which I enjoyed, although it's a quiet novel, even for me. I had to check the date of publication a few times because I kept forgetting which decade the story was set in (I just had to check again: 1980s!), although it made little difference in any case. It felt like the 1930s, but certainly that was because I was reading Willa Cather and Dorothy L. Sayers at the same time. In other situations, I would have felt that the ending was a bit of a cop-out, but it made me laugh.

P.S. This doesn't matter but my edition was actually called The Misalliance.