The Sense of an Ending

The Sense of an Ending (2012) by Julian Barnes. I didn't quite "get" this book. The first time I read it, the twist at the end made me think I had surely missed something. At 163 pages, it's a relatively short book, and it reads quickly, so I decided to read it again and see if there were any clues that had got by me the first time. Perhaps something is lost in translation (the story is set in England), but I just couldn't parse out what the trick revelation near the end really signified. Why was Violet so angry at Tony? Why didn't she just explain the situation to him? Why did she destroy Adrian's diary? Why did she send Tony just one page? I was left with a lot of questions and no satisfactory answers. I can't help but feel that I really missed out by not clicking with this book, but I just didn't. Grade: B+