From amazon.co.uk:

Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life.


Now Tony is retired. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove.

Julian Barnes writes beautifully, it's a mixture between a simple language and dense characters and the story keeps you hooked and you don't really realize it until you're finished and you ask for more.

Here goes this book, travelling to the UK. I hope you like it!

Thank you so much for sending me the book, I really appreciate it!

I am (used to be?) a big fan of Julian Barnes and he definitely is great at evoking a certain atmksphere, but I can't say this book gripped me the same way some of his other books have. I think it may have to do with the fact that I found Tony very unsympathetic and if I can't side with the main character (or at least respect them), I'm out.

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