The Sense of an Ending: The classic Booker Prize-winning novel
Julian Barnes
'A masterpiece... I would urge you to read - and re-read ' Daily Telegraph
**Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011**
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life.
Now Tony is retired. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove.
Now a major film
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Reviews for The Sense of an Ending: The classic Booker Prize-winning novel
Daily Telegraph
Mesmerising... the concluding scenes grip like a thriller - a whodunit of memory and morality
Independent
A very fine book, skilfully plotted, boldly conceived... Barnes has achieved...something of universal importance
Justin Cartwright
Observer
A precise, poignant portrait of the costs and benefits of time passing, of friendship, of love. A small masterpiece
Erica Wagner
The Times
A wonderful story that is all too human and all so real
Irish Times
An extremely moving, a precise book about the imprecision of memory and how it constructs people, stories and histories.
Alasitair Bruce
Guardian
From the moment that we hear from the woodworm which snuck aboard Noah’s ark to the final pages of the novel, Barnes interrogates moral dilemmas and motivations. These tales could easily be read is isolation, but are much better when consumed as a whole.
WeAreTheCity
A masterpiece... I would urge you to read - and re-read - The Sense of an Ending
Daily Telegraph
Mesmerising... the concluding scenes grip like a thriller - a whodunit of memory and morality
Independent
A very fine book, skilfully plotted, boldly conceived... Barnes has achieved...something of universal importance
Justin Cartwright
Observer