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Book SynopsisIan 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.
Trade ReviewWritten with superb exactness, complex, suspenseful and humane, this novel reinforces his status as
the supreme novelist of his generation * Sunday Times *
It's the good writing and the truthful and convincing way of rendering consciousness that makes
Saturday so
engrossing * Colm Toibin *
Richly laden. McEwan pulls out all the stops. A rich book,
sensuous and thoughtful. McEwan has found in
Saturday the right form to showcase his dazzling talents * Sunday Telegraph *
An exemplary novel...
It is undoubtedly McEwan's best * Mail on Sunday *
He remains at the top of his game - assured, accomplished and ambitious * Daily Telegraph *
A book of great moral maturity, beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness and all forms of violence... Everyone should read
Saturday... Artistically, morally and politically, he
excels * The Times *
Fabulous * The Guardian *
Saturday is wonderfully involving and affecting on every page. Everybody with any interest in contemporary literature will want to read it at once * Evening Standard *
A masterpiece of suspense and contemporary reflection * The Word *
A book of great maturity, beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness and all forms of violence... Everyone should read
Saturday * Financial Times *
