Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Now a major film starring Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling. 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 retired. Hes had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. Hes certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyers letter is about to prove. A masterpiece. (Daily Telegraph). Mesmerising. (Independent). Wonderful. (Irish Times).