Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life Now Tony is in middle age He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody Memory, though, is imperfect It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove The Sense of an Ending is the story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past