Julian Barnes is the author of twelve novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and two books of non-fiction, Nothing to be Frightened Of and the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life. In 2017 he was awarded the Legion d'honneur.
A vivid dramatization of the narcissism of obsessive love. * Economist * A sensitive look at what makes lovers tick. -- Robbie Millen * The Times * As quiet and aching and intimate as a James Blake ballad. -- Rupert Goold A tender and heartbreaking novel. -- Alex Preston * Observer * This intense, taut, sad and often beautiful tale may well be Barnes' best novel for years. -- Lara Feigel * Spectator * Immensely powerful. -- Alex Clark * New Statesman * A gentle, bleak, and brilliant novel. -- Jon Day * Financial Times * Emotionally acute, profoundly beautiful, as droll as it is deep... this has to be one of the smartest novels that 2018 has to offer. -- Hephzibah Anderson * Mail on Sunday * Exquisite. -- Kate Clanchy * Guardian * A novelist at the height of his powers ... Quietly devastating. -- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst * The Times *