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Anita Brookner, "Fraud," 1992

This novel has more of an ensemble cast than some (most?) of AB's books. The usual solitary woman at its centre is just one of several characters of various ages, male & female, who are in her orbit and whose inner lives are represented.

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Mrs Marsh thought she knew the sort of friend her son might call upon at past ten o'clock at night: one of the Dianas or Janes he sometimes mentioned, throwing them at her in bulk, as it were, so that she would not suspect any one of them and would thus be still further occluded from his life.