Author: julianbarnes

One of the Best Books of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times Most of us have only one story to tell . . . only one that matters, only one finally worth telling. This is mine.One summer in the sixties, in a staid suburb south of London, nineteen-year-old Paul comes home from university and is urged by his mother to join the tennis club. There he’s partnered with Susan Macleod, a … There he’s partnered with Susan Macleod, a fine player who’s forty-eight, confident, witty, and married, with two nearly adult daughters. She is a warm companion, her bond with Paul…

“Elegant, playful, and remarkable” (The New Yorker): A middle-aged man is forced to reconsider everything he has ever known about himself and the world around him when his childhood friends return to teach him a lesson. A Booker Prize winner with over 35,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads!