Dolly

Anita Brookner

Original title: A Family Romance

Also published as: A family romance

first published 1993 Random House, 1993 260 pages

Charnwood library series

Anita Brookner has been called "one of the finest novelists of her generation" by The New York Times and "a latter-day Jane Austen" by Publishers Weekly. Now, in Dolly, Brookner continues to explore in her masterful way the changing truths of identity and relationships in the lives of women, with this brilliant portrait of a family. Mild and self-effacing, Jane Manning is ill prepared for the eruption into her life...

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Editions we hold

Family Romance edition · 2016 · Penguin Books, Limited · 9780241978443
Family Romance edition · 2016 · Penguin Books, Limited · 224 pages · 9780241979426
Dolly paperback · 1997 · Seuil · 247 pages · 9782020255721
Dolly hardcover · 1996 · Random House Value Publishing · 9780517168530
A family romance. edition · 1995 · Charnwood · 28 pages
Dolly edition · 1995 · Vintage Canada · 9780394224381
Dolly edition · 1994 · G.K. Hall · 290 pages
A Family Romance edition · 1994 · Gardners Books · 224 pages · 9780140234060
A family romance edition · 1994 · Penguin · 224 pages
Dolly edition · 1993 · Random House of Canada · 260 pages
Dolly paperback · 1993 · Random House · 260 pages · 9780679745785
Dolly edition · 1993 · Random House · 260 pages

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