The Bay of Angels (Magill’s Literary Annual 2002)
At a glance:
- Author: Anita Brookner
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1950-2000
- Setting: London, England; Nice, France
- Principal Characters: Zoë Cunningham, Anne Cunningham, Simon Gould, Adam Crowhurst, Dr. Antoine Balbi
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Girls, 1960’s, 1970’s, Mothers, Parents and children, France or French people, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, 1980’s, England or English people, Death or dying, London, Truthfulness and falsehood, Bereavement or grief, 1990’s
- Locales: London, England, Nice, France
Faithful readers know that most of Anita Brookner’s novels center on a female character who passively yearns for love. Some, like Theo May in Visitors (1997), are aged and almost catatonic. Others, like Zoë Cunningham in The Bay of Angels, are younger and more energetic.
The reader first meets Zoë as a young girl in the 1950’s. She lives with her youngish widowed mother in a flat in Edith Grove, a genteel street in the farther reaches of Chelsea in southwest London. (Except for Zoë’s visit to a lawyer, the novel’s London scenes all take place in this part...
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