What I'm reading

I have started The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes. I spotted this on the Man Booker long list [13 books] a few weeks ago and it looked interesting for some reason - also a good price on Kindle. I later heard that it had not only made the short list [6 books], but was the favourite to win. So, of course, I was keen to read it before the winner is announced [18 October].

Here is the blurb:

Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate 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 middle 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 up surprises, as a lawyer’s letter is about to prove.The Sense of an Ending is the story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past.