My 1st Brookner left me spellbound at the beauty of her writing, every word and sentence expresses so much about the frailties of the human experience. The story is abt 2 women, narrated by Fay who seems linked through her life to julia who she does not like but has to endure.julia draws people to her who she can then knock down while Fay looks on seeking to escape this woman but never seeming able to do so. Ill definitely read more by her.