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Departure(s)

Von: Julian Barnes
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Departure(s) is a work of fiction – but that doesn't mean it's not true.

It is the story of a man called Stephen and a woman called Jean, who fall in love when they are young and again when they are old. It is the story of an elderly Jack Russell called Jimmy, enviably oblivious to his own mortality. It is also the story of how the body fails us, whether through age, illness, accident or intent. And it is the story of how experiences fade into anecdotes, and then into memory. Does it matter if what we remember really happened? Or does it just matter that it mattered enough to be remembered? It begins at the end of life – but it doesn't end there. Ultimately, it's about the only things that ever really mattered: how we find happiness in this life, and when it is time to say goodbye.

©2026 Julian Barnes (P)2026 Bolinda Publishing
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Always a big fan of Julian Barnes and a keen reader of his works, I am mesmerised by his viewpoint about beginnings and ends, the role of memory in our identity. My favorites were The Sense of an Ending, The Only Story and now The Departure(s).
What is our Story!? The one we consider worth telling!?
Thank you Mr Barnes. Thank you for this Ending, if we can call it that.

This heartbreaking sense of an Ending…

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