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Biographical note
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of eighteen 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.Spooky...a wonderful novel
Observer
<i>The Child in Time</i> 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
His best work to date
Irish Times
This book describes the panic of losing a child… The engulfing destructive pain is brilliantly explored
Week
<i>The Child in Time</i> is a dense, atmospheric book as much concerned with philosophical debate as with plot.
Daily Telegraph
Spooky...a wonderful novel
Observer
<i>The Child in Time</i> is an extraordinary achievement
Guardian