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The Sense of an Ending

2011150 pagesJonathan Cape

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Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school, navigating adolescence together and swearing to stay friends forever. However, Adrian's life took a tragic turn, and the group moved on, doing their best to forget. Now in middle age, Tony receives an unexpected bequest that forces him to confront a past he thought he understood, revealing how memory can distort truth and challenge long-held beliefs.

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Julian Patrick Barnes is an English writer. Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for his book The Sense of an Ending (2011). He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. In addition to novels, Barnes has published collections of essays and short stories. - Wikipedia

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Tony WebsterProtagonist
Adrian FinnSupporting

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