About the book: year / Do you remember “THE HOW IT HAPPENED”? Remember the “love triangle” that connected a quiet yuppie, a talented loser and a mediocre restoration artist in an amazing, sarcastic “modern comedy of manners”? The option “they lived happily and died on the same day” does not work out here by definition! But what, in fact, does it work out? “Love and so on”! The novel that was best described in the Times ": "An amazingly funny book. Smart. And touching!” Wodehouse? Woody Allen? No – Julian Barnes at his best!