The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

The tangled relationships of three young men with each other and with a particular young woman weave a subtle mystery in this novel by Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes. The story is told in the first person by a character named Tony Webster who is looking back over the course of a long life at relationships that started before his years at Oxford. He sees the young men coming of age, plodding through middle age, and being reflective in old age. Barnes is brilliant as usual in his writing of this compelling tale.