The Only Story by Julian Barnes Literature Portals are not only doorways

Portals are not only doorways found in children’s classics

The New York Times Best Historical Fiction of 2020The Guardian's Best Fiction of 2020Thrillist's Best Books of the YearDaniel Kehlmann transports the medieval legend of the trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel to the seventeenth century in an enchanting work of magical realism

mesmerizing voice

"-Chris Whitaker

he made her think and feel and see differently

The Only Story by Julian Barnes Literature Portals are not only doorwaysFrom the bestselling, Booker Prize winning author of The Sense of an Ending comes a brilliant, rueful look at lovewhat we do for it, how we experience it and what makes it die (People). One summer in the sixties, in a staid suburb south of London, nineteen year old Paul comes home from university and is urged by his mother to join the tennis club. There hes partnered with Susan Macleod, a fine player whos forty eight, confident, witty, and married,