\'A masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected\' - Professor John Sutherland, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2005.
But it was his contemp.
Mr and Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before.
The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world.
When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. \'A masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected\' - Professor John Sutherland, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2005