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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 ReviewI was captivated from the first page. I cannot remember when I enjoyed a first novel more -- Nina Bawden * Daily Telegraph *
If all works of fiction were as thoughtful, as subtle, as well constructed, and as funny as
Metroland there would be no more talk of the death of the novel * New Statesman *
A rare and unusual first novel -- William Boyd * London Magazine *
A very funny, touching first novel. It has a hard comic edge to it that is logical and at the same time extremely diverting * Spectator *
One would have to look very hard to find a wryer, more lovingly detailed account of intellectual and sexual innocence abroad -- Jay Parini * New York Times *
