A review by lamorcom
Falling Slowly by Anita Brookner

3.0

3.5 I am a Brookner fan, but as with several other reviewers here, I didn’t enjoy this novel half as much as the others I’ve read by her. There was too much exposition, not enough dialogue or in the moment writing for me. I also found some of the dialogue dated (a teenager - as I was in 1998, when this was published - would not have described anything as ‘smashing’). But I still enjoyed reading the perspective of the often ignored voice of the single older woman, which is Brookner’s strength and look forward to reading more by this great writer.