Departure(s)

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The new book from the Booker Prize-winning Julian Barnes, about looking back, facing the future, and coming to the end of life The new book from the Booker Prize-winning Julian Barnes, about looking back, facing the future, and coming to the end of life Departure(s) is a book about many things, including- A man called Stephen and a woman called Jean, who fall in love when they are young and again when they are old A Jack Russell called Jimmy, famous for his good behaviour The mischievous nature of memory The aging body, and how it begins to fail Taking our chances, facing our fate How we find happiness in this life How a departure can also be an arrival And when it is time to say goodbye

Author Bio

Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Booker Prize for Fiction, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and four works of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and Nothing to Be Frightened Of. He was awarded the David Cohen Prize for lifetime contribution to literature in 2011, and the Legion d'Honneur in 2017.