{"product_id":"the-rules-of-engagement-paperback","title":"The Rules of Engagement - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnita Brookner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Booker Prize-winning author of \"Hotel du Lac\" and \"Making Things Better\" gives readers an exquisite story about the changes in relationships over time, and how choices can both reflect the past and direct the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth and Betsy had been school friends in 1950s London. Elizabeth, prudent and introspective, values social propriety. Betsy, raised by a spinster aunt, is open, trusting, and desperate for affection. After growing up and going their separate ways, the two women reconnect later in life. Elizabeth has married kind but tedious Digby, while Betsy is still searching for love and belonging. In this deeply perceptive story, Anita Brookner brilliantly charts the resilience of a friendship tested by alienation and by jealousy over a man who seems to offer the promise of escape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnita Brookner was born in London and, apart from several years spent in Paris, has lived there ever since. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988. \u003cb\u003eThe Rules of Engagement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis her twenty-second novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 8.06 x 5.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 08, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51752164983072,"sku":"9781400075300","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0d4dece2f5873926ccb1c634c5b04593.webp?v=1779989008","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-rules-of-engagement-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}