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****From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of** **__The Sense of an Ending__****, an achingly profound love story between a young man on the cusp of adulthood and a woman whose life is gradually moving in the opposite direction.****__Most of us have only one story to tell. I don't mean that only one thing happens to us in our lives: there are countless events, which we turn into countless stories. But there's only one that matters, only one finally worth telling. This is mine.__It is the early 1960s, and in a staid suburb fifteen miles south of London, Paul, nineteen, home from university for the holidays, is urged by his mother to join the tennis club. At the mixed doubles tournament he is partnered with Mrs. Susan Macleod: she's more than twice his age, and the married mother of two nearly grown-up daughters. Soon Paul and Susan embark on an unconventional affair, despite the disapproval of Paul's parents and the seething resentment of Susan's husband, who can't quite play along with the ruse that Paul is merely a surrogate son and family friend.Wryly observant and devastatingly tender, Julian Barnes has created an eviscerating portrait of an unforgettable pair of star-cross'd

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Author

Barnes, Julian

Publisher

Penguin Random House UK

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780735274730

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Thriller, Mystery

Rating

3.8 / 5 (4,391 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14