This novel had a great effect on my life...This is not a sentimental book, or one full of the kindness of God, in that both the man and the woman suffer the pain of loss and feel the heat of hell. This novel persuaded me to become a Catholic.
Beryl Bainbridge, Guardian

This novel had a great effect on my life...This is not a sentimental book, or one full of the kindness of God, in that both the man and the woman suffer the pain of loss and feel the heat of hell. This novel persuaded me to become a Catholic.
Beryl Bainbridge, Guardian

Devastating study of the collision of different kinds of faith, betrayal and commitment
The Times

Devastating study of the collision of different kinds of faith, betrayal and commitment
The Times

Greene's novel of illicit love captures perfectly the atmosphere of rainy wartime London - try to read this in one sitting if you can.
Express

Greene's novel of illicit love captures perfectly the atmosphere of rainy wartime London - try to read this in one sitting if you can.
Express

In a class by himself-the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety
William Golding,

In a class by himself-the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety
William Golding,

I must have read Graham Greene's The End of the Affair 20 times
Clare Francis,

I must have read Graham Greene's The End of the Affair 20 times
Clare Francis,

a deliciously uncomfortable read for anyone who’s allowed their heart to rule their head
Mariella Frostrup, Psychologies

a deliciously uncomfortable read for anyone who’s allowed their heart to rule their head
Mariella Frostrup, Psychologies

Passionate, powerful and complex
Susannah York, Daily Express

Passionate, powerful and complex
Susannah York, Daily Express

Alexa Vargas 17 October 2011

Like Greene's other work, The End of the Affair grips you right away. Lacking pretension, this novel tells the story of two lovers and a cockolded husband in London during and just after WW2. In amongst the rubble is comic relief with a Dogberry and Verges type detective seeking to uncover the infidelity.