麻豆社

By Julian Barnes
Dramatised by Julia Stoneham
"Hello! We've met before ... Yes. I am sure.
Positive. About ten years ago."
Stuart's right. We have met before, and his
best friend Oliver, and Gillian, the woman they
both loved. We now have the chance to pick up
from where we left them in France ...

All those years ago, the feckless and witty Oliver betrayed his life-long friendship with Stuart, wrecked his marriage, stole Gillian his wife and then moved to France. There, in an attempt to ease Stuart's misery and her own conscience Gillian staged a violent incident calculated to convince Stuart that her marriage to Oliver is a disaster.

But now Oliver and Gillian are back in London and have two daughters. There isn't much money but they are happily jogging along when Stuart, now a successful entrepreneur with an unsuccessful marriage behind him, suddenly returns from the USA, re-enters their lives and life begins to take an unexpected turn for all of them.

WRITER
Julian Barnes's characters are always both believable and beautifully observed. The Sense of An Ending, winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize, and Levels Of Life, a semi-biographical book about his wife Pat Kavanagh's death, join his collection of work which has been translated into more than thirty languages.

DRAMATIST
Julia Stoneham has many radio plays to her name. Her trilogy of books about the Land Army Girls which was originally broadcast on Radio 4 as The Cinderella Service is now published and she is at present working on another novel.