This Title is Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011. 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. May Be 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. He's Had a Career and a Single Marriage, a Calm Divorce. He's Certainly Never Tried to Hurt Anybody. Memory, Though, is Imperfect. It Can Always Throw Up Surprises, As a Lawyer's Letter is About to Prove.