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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 ReviewSavagely funny
... Enormously entertaining * Sunday Times *
A satirical masterpiece...it will come to be regarded as a classic * Daily Telegraph *
A stunningly accomplished work, possibly his best yet * Financial Times *
McEwan has succeeded in producing a novel that is both profoundly serious and hilariously funny * Mail on Sunday *
Vivacious and sprawling, a beautifully and compellingly written novel * The Times *
