The Book of Evidence, shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1989 and The Sea, whic
h won the Booker prize in 2005, take us into the hauntingly confused worlds of t
wo ageing male protagonists - washed-up scientist Freddie Montgomery, desperate
to explain why he is being held in an Irish prison for murder (The Book of Evide
nce) and recently widowed art historian Max Morden, who has returned to a sleepy
seaside boarding house to relive the events of his first adolescent awakenings
(The Sea).
