Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 Tony Webster and his cliqu e first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would naviga te 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 in midd le age. 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 u p surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove. The Sense of an Ending i s the story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past. Laced with tradema rk precision, dexterity and insight, it is the work of one of the world's most d istinguished writers.