The Only Story

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE and FINANCIAL TIMES

From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending comes “a brilliant, rueful look at love-what we do for it, how we experience it and what makes it die” (People).

One summer in the sixties, in a staid suburb south of London, nineteen-year-old Paul comes home from university and is urged by his mother to join the tennis club. There he's partnered with Susan Macleod, a fine player who's f...