"The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes ****

• Book Club Selection for March 2014
• Originally published 2011
• Booker Prize winner
• English author
• Review:   Memory, history, accumulation of character, assumptions formed and shifted. Julian Barnes tells a story of the outcome of youthful choices, a deceptively simple tale. Barnes' writing took me from chuckling at youthful foolishness to remembering youthful follies, to sympathizing with the arrogant all knowing attitude of young adulthood and then smack dab into middle age and the examination of our past given new perspective. Above all, this story is about remorse, and the desire, born of life experience, to change what cannot be undone. I found the novel to be poignant and true.  Excellent!