The End of the Affair
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First published in 1951, Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair is a haunting novel of love, jealousy and faith, set in wartime and post-war London. Maurice Bendrix, a novelist, becomes consumed by his affair with Sarah Miles, the wife of a civil servant, Henry Miles; when Sarah abruptly ends their relationship, Bendrix’s wounded pride turns into an obsession with discovering why. As he retraces their shared past, Greene gradually reveals the uneasy intersections of desire, chance and belief, in a city still marked by the devastation of war.
Told with Greene’s characteristic psychological precision and moral ambiguity, the novel explores the struggle between human passion and the possibility of divine grace. Its intimate setting and confessional voice give the story the force of a private reckoning, while its questions about suffering, sacrifice and the demands of faith reach far beyond the lovers themselves. Among Greene’s most celebrated works, The End of the Affair stands as a searching meditation on the ways love can become both a source of torment and a challenge to certainty.
From the book
“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.”
— Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
On The End of the Affair
“One of Greene’s finest novels.”
— The Guardian