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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALI

The love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, Bendrix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession.

Publisher Review

Singularly beautiful and moving -- Evelyn Waugh One of the most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody's language * William Faulkner * In a class by himself...the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety -- William Golding Devastating study of the collision of different kinds of faith, betrayal and commitment * The Times * Greene's novel of illicit love captures perfectly the atmosphere of rainy wartime London - try to read this in one sitting if you can * Express * A deliciously uncomfortable read for anyone who's allowed their heart to rule their head -- Mariella Frostrup * Psychologies * Passionate, powerful and complex -- Susannah York * Daily Express * One of our greatest authors - for experience of a whole century he was the man within * Independent * No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene * The Times * Greene's classic wartime drama The End of the Affair is no less gripping for its simplicity...this unacceptable love, this devastating outcome. -- Chris Pavone * Big Issue *