The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes won the Man Booker prize in 2011 for 'Sense of an Ending' and for good reason, what a book! Tony Webster, a careful divorced father in his 60's is piecing together his past prompted by a gift left to him by the mother of an ex-girlfriend he met only once concerning the suicide of his best friend in school, Andrian. Tony and Adrian have more in common than a tightly knit clique of adolescent friends, they also dated the same girl. What Tony remembers happening all those years ago when Adrian announces he is dating Veronica and the series of events that actually happened are quite different. Time and ego's have a way of helping shape the truth into something that's not at all that. The unexpected ending will leave you rethinking the novel and it's characters in whole new light after the last page. Bravo!