Jean Serjeant, the heroine of Julian Barnes\'s wonderfully provocative novel, seems ordinary, but has an extraordinary disdain for wisdom.
And as Barnes--winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Sense of an Ending --follows her from her childhood in the 1920s to her flight into the sun in the year 2021, he confronts readers with the fruits of her relentless curiosity: pilgrimages to China and the Grand Canyon; a catalogue of 1940s sexual euphemisms; and a glimpse of technology in the twent.
Jean Serjeant, the heroine of Julian Barnes\'s wonderfully provocative novel, seems ordinary, but has an extraordinary disdain for wisdom