2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction recipient Adrian Finn and Tony Webster's group of friends first connected at school. They would negotiate the girlless sixth form together while sex- and book-hungry, exchanging affectations, inside jokes, rumours, and wit. They all pledged to remain friends for life, with Adrian possibly being a little more serious than the rest and undoubtedly being smarter. Tony is now in his middle age. He has a career and one peaceful divorce after a single marriage. He has undoubtedly never attempted to harm someone. However, memory is not perfect. As a letter from a lawyer is about to demonstrate, it can always come up with surprises. The narrative of one man coming to grips with the malleable past is told in The Sense of an Ending. With the customary accuracy.