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Before She Met Me
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  • Published: 2 November 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099540076
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $24.99

Before She Met Me

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Paperback
2 Nov 2009
EBook
1 July 2010
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27 Aug 2020
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'A remarkably original and subtle novel' Frank Kermode, New York Review of Books

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011

Graham Hendrick, an historian, has left his wife Barbara for the vivacious Ann, and is more than pleased with his new life. Until, that is, the day he discovers Ann's celluloid past as a mediocre film actress. Soon Graham is pouncing on old clues, examining her books for inscriptions from past lovers, frequenting cinemas and poring over the bad movies she appeared in. It's not that he blames Anne for having a past before they met, but history has always mattered to him...
  • Published: 2 November 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099540076
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes is the author of fourteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Booker Prize, 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 five works of non-fiction, including Nothing to Be Frightened Of and the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life. He was awarded the David Cohen Prize for lifetime contribution to literature in 2011, and the Légion d'honneur in 2017.
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Also by Julian Barnes

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The Sense of an Ending
Flaubert's Parrot
A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters (Vintage Past)
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The Man in the Red Coat
The Only Story
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Praise for Before She Met Me

A short and brutally brilliant novel about a relationship ruined by jealousy, this is packed with acute observations about the nature of love

Metro

Frighteningly plausible... stunningly well done

Guardian

Funny, sad and faintly ominous...making jealousy tangible and dangerous

Spectator

An intelligent and addictive entertainment... Mr Barnes has succeeded in writing one of those books that keep us up until 2am reading just one chapter more... few will be able to resist its easy humour and almost insidious readability

New York Times Book Review

Compelling

Daily Express

Concise and witty about psychology, ideas and love, in all its many forms

The Times