The Sense of an Ending
- Julian Barnes
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but — mainly — to ourselves.
Haven’t read The Sense of an Ending? It’s a really good book that sucks you in and is a winner of the Man Booker Prize.
Applaud for a few great words from Julian Barnes.

There are meta-cognitive references by the narrator correlating his life to that of a character in a novel. That jarred my reading but the device is dropped as the story begins to unfold. Well worth a weekend reading.
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