A review by rachel_smrt
Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes

I read...half of this! I loved the description of this reserved and brilliant professor through the eyes of the fairly ordinary narrator who admires and obsesses over her. But then Barnes has the narrator share his version of the thesis that the professor wanted to write, about the historical figure Julian the Apostate, Roman emperor and Christianity resistor, and I fell off. I'm sorry, both Julians! I'm sure you're both worth more!