The Only Story by Julian Barnes 2018 SIGNED & DATED UK 1st/1st HB Jonathan Cape

On offer is The Only Story SIGNED Julian Barnes 1st Edition 1st Impression Hardback Book.\nSome blemishes to the extremities of the dust cover.\n\nSynopsis\n\nDescribed by some reviewers as a kind of companion piece to Julian Barnes\u2019s Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of An Ending, The Only Story is a meditation on time, memory and consequence. It is also a book about emotional resonance and the possibility that love might echo throughout a lifetime.\nWould you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.\nFirst love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn't know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he's proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention.\nAs he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen. Tender and wise, The Only Story is a deeply moving novel by one of .