The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

I am writing this as I will not be able to be at the meeting on Wednesday. This is particularly annoying as I asked for a Graham Greene book and I was looking forward to the discussion. Anyway I was pleased to read this book and to remedy an obvious hole in my reading. I enjoyed The End of the Affair. I'd like to know if others thought it was a typical GG book. I liked the way he wrote, the words he used and the way he drew me in from the very beginning. In the first two pages you are given a vivid picture of The Common in the rain, the post war setting and an inkling of how the main characters might be involved. There was even a mention of the damaged door that figures large later on. I found the private investigator very creepy and wondered just how he insinuated himself into the lives of almost all the characters. Towards the end I kept thinking of Tess of the D'urbevilles and how irritated I am when she just lets fate order her life without fighting back. Sarah seemed to follow this path too once she had decided that God had answered her prayer. I am sure there is much to discuss here. I am interested that Monica Ali says that GG intended the book to stretch as far after Sarah's death as it starts before it. The end seemed very rushed to me. Lots of life changing events happened in a short space of time. Perhaps things do happen like that. I look forward to reading a summary of your discussion.