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Book SynopsisJulian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including
The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and
Sunday Times bestsellers
The Noise of Time and
The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and three books of non-fiction, including the
Sunday Times number one bestseller
Levels of Life and
Nothing To Be Frightened Of, which won the 2021 Yasnaya Polyana Prize in Russia. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.
Trade ReviewThe triangle of deeply believable characters and the story of betrayal and revenge are so engrossing that you almost fail to notice the usual Barnesian fusillade of wit and brilliance * Sunday Times *
The real wonder of this book is its apparent simplicity, its apparent slowness, the exactness and delicacy of its observations, the absolute firness of the form for the story. Of its kind - and I still don't dare to say what that kind might be - it's perfect * Daily Telegraph *
This wonderfully entertaining novel... A work as skilled and satisfying as this can be nothing other than affirming: Barnes' delicate balance between laughter and despair lifts his entertainment into art * The Times *
