The sense of an ending is novel by Julian Barnes. This book have two parts. In part one the autor write about a group of friends. Adrian, Alex, Colin and Tony. They thought that the political and social system were corrupted and Adrian’s arrival into the group disloged Alex from his position. After they finished school promising lifelong friendship, they went their separate ways. Adrian won a schoolarship to Cambridge, Tony read history at Bristol, Collin went to Sussex and Alex go into his father’s business.

Tony had a girlfriend that was called Veronica and they liked poetry and rock music. Jack was Veronica’s brother a sporting young man and Tony felt insecure with Veronica’s family.

One day Tony’s mother gave him a letter from Alex which said: Adrian died. He killed herself. That’s the point of the story.

A year on, Colin and Alex suggested a reunion. And they talked and rememebered Adrian, his friend. Tony left home and started to work as a trainee in arts administration. He met Margaret, they married and three years later Suzie was born. Few years later they divorced and Tony had a few affairs but nothing serious. After all, Tony succesfully put Veronica out of his mind.
In the second part of the book we are back to the current time; One fact, two documents that Veronica’s mother leaves to Tony, will make him remember everything that happened at that moment. And it will take us to the surprising end, with the bitterness of real memory, which will bring another person, what happened and what was not aware at the time.

Rubèn Rodríguez.