This title is winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011. Tony Webster & his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry & book-hungry they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together trading in affectations in-jokes rumour & wit. May be Adrian was a little more serious than the others certainly more intelligent but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He's had a career & a single marriage a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory though is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises as a lawyer's letter is about to prove.