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Leaving home

Fearful of emulating her isolated and timid widowed mother, Emma Roberts, herself circumspect, repressed, and brooding, leaves London for Paris to pursue her study of classical garden design. Emma is trying to live "according to the classical ideal, that of order and control and self-mastery," the very life that Brookner has so assiduously examined in each of her subtly powerful psychological novels, which now number 23. Brookner's melancholy but determined narrators approach the business of life like cautious chess players excessively contemplating every move, and Emma is no exception.

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  • "Fearful of emulating her isolated and timid widowed mother, Emma Roberts, herself circumspect, repressed, and brooding, leaves London for Paris to pursue her study of classical garden design. Emma is trying to live "according to the classical ideal, that of order and control and self-mastery," the very life that Brookner has so assiduously examined in each of her subtly powerful psychological novels, which now number 23. Brookner's melancholy but determined narrators approach the business of life like cautious chess players excessively contemplating every move, and Emma is no exception."@en
  • "When cautious Emma Roberts goes to France to carry out research into garden design, she finds a diversion from her studies in her unlikely new friend Francoise Desnoyers, in whose house she is welcomed as a friend. However, she cannot ignore the tensions that exist between Francoise and her formidable mother, or between Mme Desnoyers and her other guests. London recedes as life in France becomes more significant, but it is when a horrifying episode occurs that Emma has to compromise."@en
  • "Emma yearns to make friends, attend parties, and have love affairs like other women, but to her these things seem forever out of reach - that is, until her college tutors find her a scholarship to study seventeenth-century garden design in Paris. Once settled in a small Paris hotel, Emma befriends Francoise Desnoyers. On a weekend visit to Francoise's beautiful country chateau, L'Ermitage, Emma is drawn into Francoise's problematic relationship with her imperious mother."@en
  • "When cautious Emma Roberts goes to France to carry out research into seventeenth century garden design, she finds a reliable diversion from her studies in her unlikely new friend Francoise Desnoyers, in whose beautiful house she is welcomed as a gues."
  • "When Emma Roberts goes to France in order to carry out research into garden design, she finds herself diverted from her studies by her new friend, Françoise Desnoyers. But a horrifying incident places an end to Emma's French fascination."
  • "While in France, Emma finds an unlikely friend in Francoise. Emma cannot ignore the tensions that exist between Francoise and her mother, or between Mme Desnoyers and her other guests."
  • "A horrifying incident ends a young girl's fascination with France and she is forced to resume her life back home."
  • "When cautious Emma Roberts goes to France to carry out research into seventeenth-century garden design she meets Francoise Desnoyers, in whose beautiful house she is welcomed as a guest. Tensions exist in the house and, when a horrifying episode occurs, Emma retreats to her dull life and the compromises that she comes to accept."@en

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  • "Leaving home"
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  • "Leaving home a novel"
  • "Leaving home : a novel"
  • "Leaving home [a novel]"@en

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