Description

By (author) McEwan, Ian

Short /annotation:

Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch

‘Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty’ Benedict Cumberbatch

On a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children’s books, turns his back momentarily.

Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch

”Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty” Benedict Cumberbatch

On a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children”s books, turns his back momentarily. When he looks around again, his child is gone. In a single moment, everything is changed. The kidnapping has a devastating effect on Stephen”s life and marriage. Memories and the present become inseparable – as Stephen gets lost in daydreams of the past – and time bends back on itself, dragging Stephen”s own childhood back into the present.

Review quote:
Spooky…a wonderful novel

Review quote:
The Child in Time is an extraordinary achievement

Review quote:
It is marvellously written, moving, serious, readable… If you want to be appalled, refreshed, exhilarated, enlivened – read it

Review quote:
His masterpiece

Review quote:
Artistically, morally, and politically, he excels

Review quote:
His best work to date

Review quote:
This book describes the panic of losing a child… The engulfing destructive pain is brilliantly explored

Review quote:
The Child in Time is a dense, atmospheric book as much concerned with philosophical debate as with plot.

Review quote:
Spooky…a wonderful novel

Review quote:
The Child in Time is an extraordinary achievement

Biographical note:

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen 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.

Promotional headline:
Re-jacketed in stunning new series style, The Child in Time won the Whitbread Novel Award in 1987.