A brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam.
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of eighteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; Machines Like Me; and Lessons. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.
Compulsively readable... McEwan’s prose keeps its cutting edge and
his books are the ones the reading public still crave… A masterly
balance between research and imagination… One feels an immediate
pleasure in returning to prose of uncommon clarity, unshowiness and
control
*The Times*
Classic McEwan… It’s a pleasure from start to finish, one not to be
interrupted
*Guardian*
A powerful, humane novel
*Evening Standard*
One of the finest writers alive
*Sunday Times*
McEwan writes as beautifully and elegantly as ever, his prose
quintessentially English in its restraint, one meticulously chosen
word hinting at depths of emotion
*Washington Post*
A finely written, engaging read… Poignant, challenging and
lyrical
*Sunday Express*
A class act by one of our finest novelists.
*Red*
A compelling moral dilemma [with] a moving and heartfelt
denouement.
*Tatler*
Shows McEwan as a master of fiction.
*GQ*
It is one most extraordinary, powerful, moving reading experiences
of my life. It is an utterly remarkable novel, delicately balanced,
perfectly crafted, beautifully written.
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