"East Wind"

"East Wind"
by Julian Barnes

Rating: 6.9



Short story set in an English seaside town about a divorced man’s love affair with a waitress named Andrea from the former East Germany. Vernon, a divorced man in his late thirties moves to a town on the East Anglian coast. At a restaurant called the Right Plaice, he meets…

Vernon looked out at the concrete strip and the shingle beach, at the gray sea and the gray sky beyond. The view was pretending that it had always been the same, for as long as people had sat at this café window. Except that there used to be a row of beach huts blocking the view. Then someone had burned them down. ♦