This is by Julian Barnes so we know it will concentrate on memory and its traps. A few illustrations: "… yet what you wind up recollecting isn’t generally the same as what you saw." And "I have to return quickly to a couple of episodes that have developed into accounts, to some estimated recollections which time has disfigured into assurance." And "once more, I should push this is my perusing now of what happened then. Or, on the other hand rather, my memory now of my perusing then of what was occurring at the time." Is it on the grounds that the principle hero and I are of an age that I making the most of his ruminations on memory and time to such an extent? Yes, that is a piece of it, however Julian Barnes has a brilliant turn of expression and he is a sharp spectator who knows how to verbalize those perceptions.