Undue Influence

Undue Influence is the nineteenth novel by Booker Prize winning author of Hotel du Lac Anita Brookner. 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. But the unexpected news of this woman's death releases emotions that were not entirely foreseen. .