In Julian Barnes’ compelling novel, a middle-aged man is forced to reconsider his life when he is confronted with his imperfectly remembered past.
Julian Barnes’ novel, based on a real events, traces the intersecting lives of an obscure solicitor and the world-famous creator of Sherlock Holmes.
Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late 19th-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, George remains in hardworking obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events that make sensational headlines - the ‘Great Wyrley Outrages’.
Julian Barnes
About the Author
Julian Barnes is the author of 13 novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Booker Prize.Other nominated books by Julian Barnes
England is replicated in a theme park on the Isle of Wight in Julian Barnes’ satirical postmodern novel, which the author describes as ‘a semi-farce’.
As Julian Barnes’ enigmatic narrator investigates the life and art of Flaubert, so he reveals his own secrets in this witty weave of fact and fiction.
