Martin Amis

This book provoked an unusual article from journalist Mark Lawson , centred less on Brookner than on his own response. I have mocked her dessicated sentences, characterless protagonists and action-free narratives, he wrote. The gist...

The reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement found the regressive narrative disconcerting and tiring. Novelist L. P. Hartley , writing in the London Magazine, expressed the view that the technique was a misuse...

Nicholas Lezard wrote in the Guardian that this book teaches, in every line[,] the consolations of age, the common, shareable tone of experience. Athill begins the book, in fact, with her own old age, and...