![]() I could name the very moment when it had begun, and one day I knew I should be able to name the final hour. ![]() When I began to realize how often we quarrelled, how often I picked on her with nervous irritation, I became aware that our love was doomed: love had turned into a love-affair with a beginning and an end. Bendrix’s latest book features a character who works in the civil service hence he has a semi-legitimate reason to ask Sarah to have dinner with him – what better way to find out about the working life of a public servant than to talk to his wife? By the end of their dinner date, it is clear that Bendrix and Sarah are deeply attracted to one another and so their love affair begins, a liaison that seems blighted virtually from the outset. Under the guise of conducting some research for his latest novel, Bendrix forms a connection with Sarah, the wife of a government official and neighbour, Henry Miles. The End of the Affair is narrated by Maurice Bendrix, a moderately successful single writer living in London. ![]() ![]() ![]() My copy of his 1951 novel, The End of the Affair, has been languishing on the shelves for what feels like ages, so when I compiled my reading list for the Classics Club back in December, it seemed a natural fit for the project. It’s been a very long time since I last read one of Graham Greene’s books, maybe twenty or twenty-five years. ![]()
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