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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 ReviewPowerful and disturbing...a tour de force * New York Times *
To call
The Innocent a spy novel would be like calling
Lord of the Flies a boy's adventure yarn...it ensure McEwan's major status * Sunday Times *
The sheer cleverness of the book is dazzling, and only fully to be appreciated as you turn the last page * London Review of Books *
It's the most tightly plotted of Ian McEwan's novels, and to argue properly for its excellence would involve showing how the political and emotional themes are inseparable from its narrative ingenuity, the patterns of revelation and about-turn which mark its final pages * Guardian *
Generous in scale, simple in its hideous impact... Ironically, he has celebrated the obsequies of the East-West spy thriller by writing one of the subtlest * Mail on Sunday *
