Sea

A novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory. Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time. What Max comes to understand about the past, and about its indelible effects on him, is at the center of this elegiac, gorgeously written novel.

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2005