Leaving Home Author:Anita Brookner When cautious Emma Roberts leaves her lonely mother's home in London to venture to Paris, she finds a reliable diversion from her studies of seventeenth-century garden design in a captivating new friend, Francoise Desnoyers. Soon, free-spirited Francoise welcomes Emma as a guest in her family's beautiful mansion. — However Emma is not too... more » dazzled to ignore the tensions that exist between Francoise and her formidable mother, or between Mme. Desnoyers and her other guests. When a horrifying episode puts an end to Emma's fascination, she begins to understand the compromises and challenges in love and life that she must come to accept.« less