Enigmatic Claire is 30 and lives alone. When she meets Martin Gibson, a faded scholar, she becomes inordinately interested. She is even more interested when she. · Undue Influence by Anita Brookner A new Anita Brookner book is unlikely to surprise, unlikely to shock or disturb. Yet her work continues to be utterly compelling. · Undue Influence. By Anita Brookner. Random House $ Lately, it has taken a supreme effort of will for this reader to pick up an Anita Brookner novel and see it .
Undue Influence is the 19th novel by Anita Brookner, the Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel du Lac.. Enigmatic Claire is 30 and lives alone. When she meets Martin Gibson, a faded scholar, she becomes inordinately interested. She is even more interested when she meets his wife, a far more spectacular personality. Undue Influence by Anita Brookner. Posted by Kate W in Fiction and tagged with Anita Brookner, book review, British, fiction, gin, review . Three thoughts on Undue Influence by Anita Brookner: Never have I wanted to shake a character hard and say "Get a grip" as much as I have wanted to with Claire Pitt. In Undue Influence, acclaimed novelist Anita Brookner proves once again that even in the most closely circumscribed of lives, hearts can venture into unknown-and potentially explosive-territory. Claire Pitt is nothing if not a practical young woman, living a life in contemporary London that is to all appearances placid, orderly and consciously lacking in surprise.
The heroine of Anita Brookner's nineteenth novel 'Undue Influence' is twenty-nine-year-old Claire Pitt, a self-contained and seemingly unassuming young woman, who enjoys fantasizing about the lives of others and who works in a second-hand bookshop owned by two very elderly spinster sisters. Undue Influence by Anita Brookner A new Anita Brookner book is unlikely to surprise, unlikely to shock or disturb. Yet her work continues to be utterly compelling. Her protagonist in Undue Influence is a youngish woman, Claire Pitt, who clearly hasn’t figured out where she is headed in life. Somewhat recently orphaned by the death of her mother, Claire is working in the basement of a used bookshop where she is transcribing the writings of St. John Collier, the late father of the Misses Colliers who run the bookshop they inherited from him.
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