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I have just finished reading, more or less in one sitting, this novel, Julian Barnes latest.

I can’t think when I have read a book I enjoyed more.
Barnes always writes well, very well indeed, but this time his plotting and ability to deliver sucker punches shows that he can also write a real page turner.

It is , roughly , about a middle aged man and the tricks that memory plays on him- maybe it is because I share his age and sex that the novel resonates so strongly with me.
It must be his best yet (and there have been already some stunners) and must be read.
Surely it will walk away with this years Booker.