From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of }A Sense of An Ending{, comes a terribly sad new novel about a young man who falls in love with a much older woman. In the early 1960s, 19-year old Paul falls in love with 48-year old Susan Macleod who is married with two children, and soon they become lovers. Looking back into how they fell in love, Paul also recounts the slow process of how everything fell apart...