Charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from naive, carefree country girl before the war to old age in 2020, following her experiences of marriage, motherhood and life Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020.
