Staring at the Sun
Author: Julian Barnes
Charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginnings as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. This novel enables readers to follow her experience in marriage, her questioning of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China…..Read More
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