Chistlehurst
Where Tony first claimed he peed into, and later he sluiced his sperm down the drain
What is the washbasin?
Margaret's nickname of Veronica
What is 'Fruitcake'?
Tony describes this character as the 'cleverest' of the friend group.
Adrian Finn
The tidal event/river where water flows upstream instead of downstream.
What is the 'River Severn', or the 'Severn Bore'?
The girl Tony had [sexual] relations in the US.
Who is Annie?
The breakfast food being prepared by Sarah Ford
What are eggs?
Tony recives this specific item from Sarah's lawyer, which starts the modern-day story.
What is Sarah's will, including money and a letter?
This is how Tony and his childhood buds wore their watch
What is on the insides their wrist?
The busy area where Veronica agrees to meet Tony
What is Oxford Street?
Who is Veronica Mary Elizabeth Ford?
The blunt statement about Veronica made by Sarah Ford after Tony wakes up
What is "Don't let Veronica get away with too much"?
This is the specific amount of money Sarah Ford leaves in her will.
What is 500 pounds?
The significance behind Tony having having pictures of his grandkids that "always show them younger than they are"?
What is Tony not being in close contact with his daughter and her family
The place Veronica and Tony agree to meet for the first time
What is Millenium Bridge (Wobbly Bridge)?
The two words Tony uses to describe the events of the book at the beginning of the novel, and then the end.
What is "great unrest"?
This was Barnes' intention in describing Sarah's hand wave to Tony
What is 'hinting at a secret relationship between Sarah and Tony'
"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the _____ __ _______"
What are the 'inadequacies of documentation'?
Barnes' uses the erosion of memory as a rhetorical device to show how Tony is doing this.
What is lying, or fabricating his own version of events?
The 'suicide' bridge on the postcard Tony sends to Adrian
What is the Clifton Suspension Bridge?
This is the meaning behind Adrian's equation.
What is 'the accumulation of guilt, and who was responsible for what'?
The significance of Barnes' description of Sarah's frying of the eggs in a 'slapdash' manner
What is hinting at her carefree, alluding to the reason she would sleep with Tony.
Also: What is showing how Sarah wasn't the one to clean and polish the house, implying it was Veronica instead.
Adrian's suicide note was not a cry for help, but a logical argument for this.
What is the logical right to take one's life?
This is the disorder that Tony frequently mentions, alluding to the idea that he has this.
What is dementia?
The significance of Veronica making Tony take the picture of her and his friends in Trafalgar square
What is 'Tony's passivity', 'Veronica setting her sights on Adrian', or 'any other reasonable, justified answer'?
One of the artists/records Tony mentions he owns in his 'extensive pop selection'.
What is either: Elvis, the Beatles, the [Rolling] Stones, the Hollies, the Animals, the Moody Blues, or Donovan?