A retired, comfortably unreflective man receives an unexpected bequest that forces him to reexamine his memory of a brilliant school friend's suicide decades earlier, and discovers how unreliable and self-serving his own account of the past has been.
Books mentioned in The Sense of an Ending (4)
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: “my father blamed Alex when he found me reading The Communist Manifesto”
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith: “a couple of childhood Arthur Rackhams, and her comfort book, I Capture the Castle”
Honest to God by John A. T. Robinson: “plus Bishop John Robinson's Honest to God next to my Larry cartoon books”
Sweeney Agonistes by T. S. Eliot: “'"Birth, and Copulation, and Death" – that's what T. S. Eliot says it's all about.'”