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The Only Story
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The brilliant new novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending

About the Author

Julian Barnes is the author of twelve novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and two books of non-fiction, Nothing to be Frightened Of and the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life. In 2017 he was awarded the Legion d'honneur.

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A novelist at the height of his powers ... Quietly devastating.
*The Times*

Exquisite.
*Guardian*

Emotionally acute, profoundly beautiful, as droll as it is deep... this has to be one of the smartest novels that 2018 has to offer.
*Mail on Sunday*

A gentle, bleak, and brilliant novel.
*Financial Times*

Immensely powerful.
*New Statesman*

This intense, taut, sad and often beautiful tale may well be Barnes’ best novel for years.
*Spectator*

A tender and heartbreaking novel.
*Observer*

As quiet and aching and intimate as a James Blake ballad.
*Rupert Goold*

A sensitive look at what makes lovers tick.
*The Times*

A vivid dramatization of the narcissism of obsessive love.
*Economist*

Cunningly crafted and sharply observed.
*Daily Mail*

Barnes writes with shattering emotional acuity. The moments of pure devastation pile up, the story crushing with increasing weight as it unfurls.
*Independent*

An utterly devastating masterpiece of a novel.
*Irish Independent*

At once understated and dazzling. Which perhaps sums [Barnes] up, the dazzle lying not in the shimmer of individual sentences so much as in the curves and vaults of his structural decisions.
*New York Review of Books*

A quietly harrowing novel about the complexity of love and the slipperiness of memory.
*The Week*

Distils some of the pandemonium, and intergenerational conflict, of our own uncertain time.
*i*

Barnes gives us a novel that asks the profoundest questions about memory, love and human existence.
*Harrods Magazine*

What begins as a witty tale of rebellion against bourgeois norms becomes a moving meditation on love. Once again Barnes shows off his skill at getting to the heart of a human heart.
*Woman & Home*

Deeply affecting and profoundly philosophical, The Only Story is a novel by an author at the height of his technical powers.
*Sunday Express*

Barnes' knowing combination of humour and seriousness makes [The Only Story] ... a persuasive universal romance.
*Tablet*

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