"Short-listed for the 2011 Man Booker Prize" -- Cover.

"Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of The Random House Greoup Limited, London, in 2011." -- Verso.

This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about until his oldest friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he'd left all of this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider various things, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and his place in the world.