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Book SynopsisNow 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.
Trade ReviewSpooky...a wonderful novel * Observer *
The Child in Time is an extraordinary achievement * Guardian *
It is marvellously written, moving, serious, readable... If you want to be appalled, refreshed, exhilarated, enlivened - read it * Sunday Times *
His masterpiece
Artistically, morally, and politically, he excels * The Times *
