To the reader, this mystery conceit looks like a flimsy sash losing the battle against the flab it's meant to contain. In fact, nothing is fully developed in this work, including Anna's enigmatic disappearance as the story opens and her incredible resurrection at novel's end. spoilt ever after.'' Brookner's unusual ability to depict her characters' dreams-here, Anna's of a wedding ring buried in an elaborate cake and of her mother as a coquette-is never employed to best advantage. plucky and good and desperate, and if one were a man one would move on.'' Indeed, a man has moved on-Lawrence Halliday, the physician who made house calls to her mother and showed interest in Anna before he was snatched away by a more determined manhunter, the silly Vickie Gibson, outfitted and manicured in flirtatious red, ``Daddy's girl or Mummy's little princess. Vera resents Anna's patronizing and false cheer, describing her as ``Little Dorrit.
Mousy spinster Anna Durrant cares for her widowed mother until the elder woman's death, then transfers her fanatical altruism to a family friend in her 80s, Vera Marsh. The scammer then resold the codes to unsuspecting parties, maybe several times over.
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On the other hand, you appear to have purchased an iTunes code that was previously redeemed by the scammer. Like most of Brookner's other fiction, this novel features a middle-aged, discontented, lonely British woman with family money unfortunately, it features none of the author's singular spring-loaded narrative technique and brillant characterization, which made the best of her previous titles (the Booker Prize-winning Hotel de Lac, Brief Lives ) so distinctive. Yes, Apple got paid the money it was due when the iTunes code was first purchased.