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.

"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