A review by ambersnowpants
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

5.0

Being this, the first of my Graham Greene...I am in love. But! Let me just say that the incredible narration of Colin Firth made me all melty. He could probably read ingredient lists from cracker boxes and make it sound heavy with meaning and emotion. An affair, of course, is the topic of this novel. Colin does excellent first person narration of the main character, Maurice Bendrix, as he falls in love and is inexplicably tossed from it and into a jilted lover's swamp of questions, remorse, and melancholy. Yeah, it is a typical love story BUT the way it is told is timeless, classic, pulls your heartstrings and you are making all sorts of groans and moans for him without a thought. Mr. Firth won an Audie (like a Grammy for Audiobooks) for this performance and well he should! He said, in his acceptance speech, that this novel hit home with him in a deeply personal way. You can feel that in his voice. You really can. I am still fairly new to the audiobook circuit but what a smashing one to have in the first few!

My favorite and most thought-provoking line from the entire novel, “If I'm a bitch and a fake, is there nobody who will love a bitch and a fake?