Julian Barnes - The Sense Of An Ending

The Sense of an Ending is a 2011 Booker Prize-winning novella by Julian Barnes about a middle-aged man, Tony Webster, who is forced to confront his past when a mysterious inheritance from an old girlfriend's mother makes him re-evaluate his memories and the stories he's told himself about his life, particularly concerning his brilliant, tragic friend Adrian Finn. The novel explores themes of memory, history, and self-deception, as Tony's recollections of his youth are challenged by new information, revealing the unreliability of personal history and the selective nature of memory.