The book ends with a description of the sexagenarian Sewall's courtings after his wife's death.
Bishop's book ends with recipes, some from the great Roman chef Apicius, author of the world's oldest known cookbook.
Most annoying of all is the lack of a conclusion: the book ends with a garbled account of the downfall of Margaret Thatcher and the limp observation that the 1980s were by far the most interesting part of the post-war era.
For all that, the book succeeds and ends up as something rather more than a clever publishing wheeze.
Part memoir, part paean to her departed other half, the book begins and ends with recollections of losing Robert.
But it's a failing of the book that the show ends so abruptly, you almost think the descending curtain is a mistake by the stage manager.
Mr Carey ends the book with a quote from Golding's journal, a wry and moving tribute to Ann for everything she has meant to him, from bed to books.
He ends his book with a blast of cartographical analysis, and suggests that weather maps have created the template for other representations of volatile geographic phenomena such as the incidence of crime and disease.
Set six years after Pride and Prejudice ends, the book features Jane Austen's best-known characters, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy, and combines "classic period drama" with a suspenseful mystery plot.
The danger with a book like this is that it ends up lost in abstract discussion of difficult subjects.
Mr Fletcher made a remarkable journey in his battered Dodge after seven years as the Washington correspondent of the Times of Britain, and ends up with a triumph of a book.
Kevin Rushby's book, by contrast, starts earlier, spreads wider and ends later.
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