Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant from her beginning as a naive carefree country girl before the war through to her wry & trenchant old age in the year 2020 We follow her bruising experience in marriage her probing of male truths her adventures in motherhood & in China & we cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life & the often unsatisfactory answers it provides