num_pages: 176
description: Graham was an he was meant to be an expert on the past. But there were aspects of it, he discovered, that couldn’t be subdued, that simply carried on, lively and painful, as if they were the present. He began to mind. He minded very much indeed. While those around him look on – with concern, with contempt, with amusement – Graham’s meticulous passion gradually begins to run out of control. Julian Barnes presents an unnerving version of sexual jealousy and shows it to be not just living, but reasonable, ordinary, funny, dangerous and consuming.
language: English
title: Before She Met Me
titlecomplete: Before She Met Me
characters: Ann Hendrick, Jack Lupton, Graham Hendrick
genres: British Literature, English Literature, Novels, Love, Romance, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 3358
places: United Kingdom
publisher: Pan MacMillan