Ian McEwan
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Language
English
Description
These three bestselling novels by the Booker Award-winning author explore the dark sides of love, family and sexuality.
The Child in Time
On a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket, a father's brief moment of distraction turns his life upside down when his daughter is kidnapped. His spiral of guilt and bereavement has effects on his marriage, his psyche-and time itself.
The Cement Garden
When their mother suddenly dies, four siblings...
Author
Language
English
Description
Joe (Daniel Craig, Road to Perdition) is an accomplished writer and professor whose rational life is thrust into a downward spiral of guilt after witnessing a freak, fatal ballooning accident while picnicking with girlfriend Claire (Samantha Morton, Minority Report). Jed (Rhys Ifans, Notting Hill), another man involved in that fateful day, seeks out Joe looking for consolation and a way to make sense of this tragedy they’ve both witnessed. Jed soon...