The Sense of an Ending

I very much enjoyed The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize. It is a small book. It is unusual and is well-written and clever. Middle-aged man, Tony Webster, looks back on his life in the 1960s particularly focusing on his girlfriend Veronica with whom he had an "unsatisfactory" relationship, and also his friend Adrian. There was a tragedy early in the story which later came to haunt Tony in his mid-life. He questions his own memory of events and even has some distaste for the person he used to be. He is forced to confront these issues when he receives an unexpected bequest. 41/2/5