We live in time - it holds us and molds us - but I never felt I understood it very well. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, Tony Webster and Adrian Finn swore to stay friends for life. Now in middle age, a lawyer''s letter proves that Tony''s memory may be imperfect. The story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past, The Sense of an Ending is laced with Julian Barnes'' trademark precision, dexterity and insight, and won him the Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011. ''A precise, poignant portrait of the costs and benefits of time passing, of friendship, of love. A small masterpiece'' Erica Wagner, The Times

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Julian Barnes is the author of fourteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Booker Prize, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and five works of non-fiction, including Nothing to Be Frightened Of and the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life. He was awarded the David Cohen Prize for lifetime contribution to literature in 2011, and the Légion d'honneur in 2017.