- published: 07 Feb 2016
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Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is a contemporary English writer. Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize, for his book The Sense of an Ending, three of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005). He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh (his late wife's surname).
Barnes is one of the best-loved English writers in France, where he has won several literary prizes, including the Prix Médicis for Flaubert's Parrot and the Prix Femina for Talking It Over. He is an officer of L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Barnes was born in Leicester although his family moved to the outer suburbs of London six weeks afterwards. Both of his parents were teachers of French. He has said that his support for Leicester City Football Club was, aged four or five, "a sentimental way of hanging on" to his home city. He was educated at the City of London School from 1957 to 1964. At the age of 10, Barnes was told by his mother that he had "too much imagination". As an adolescent he lived in Northwood, Middlesex, the 'Metroland' of which he named his first novel. He then went on to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied Modern Languages. After graduation, he worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary supplement for three years. He then worked as a reviewer and literary editor for the New Statesman and the New Review. During his time at the New Statesman, Barnes suffered from debilitating shyness, saying: "When there were weekly meetings I would be paralysed into silence, and was thought of as the mute member of staff". From 1979 to 1986 he worked as a television critic, first for the New Statesman and then for The Observer.
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Plot: Monica, a young wife, is devastated by her verbally abusive husband who leaves her because she couldn't conceive a child. Her thoughts overwhelm her to the point of condemnation and suicide. As she confides in her father, she will be forced to face certain truths. Her circumstances will ultimately lead her to make the most important decision of her life.
Keywords: anger, betrayal, bitterness, deceit, deception, destruction, divorce, father, forgiveness, hope