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Literary Fiction · ThoughtfulA retired man receives a mysterious bequest that makes him reexamine his school friendships
The Sense of an Ending
2011163 pagesEasy readSteady pace
★ Booker Prize, 2011
A man's memory of his youth turns out to be unreliable
Tony Webster has had a quiet life, but a bequest from the mother of an old girlfriend forces him to reconsider what happened at university and after. As he goes back through his memories, the account he has told himself starts to change. It won the 2011 Booker Prize and was adapted as a 2017 film.
More about this book
Who
Tony Webster and his school and university friends.
World
England, from the 1960s to the present.
What makes it different
It is a short novel about the unreliability of memory.
Feel
Quiet and unsettling.
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Further reading
- The Sense of an EndingWikipedia