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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.Marks the debut of a talented and genuinely imaginative writer
New Statesman
As promising a first collection of stories as I have ever come across
Vogue
Ian McEwan writes to shock and succeeds... It is a tour-de-force of concision, and funny, too, in a deadpan manner
Times Literary Supplement
And now for a brand new writer of formidable talent, Ian McEwan who is 27. His stories <i>First Love</i>, <i>Last Rites</i>…are the most devastating debut I have seen for a long time
Daily Mail
A brilliant debut by the most promising writer around
Observer Books of the Year
Now 40 years since first publication, McEwan's first published work is still his most hauntingly dark and atmospheric.
Esquire
Marks the debut of a talented and genuinely imaginative writer
New Statesman
As promising a first collection of stories as I have ever come across
Vogue
Ian McEwan writes to shock and succeeds... It is a tour-de-force of concision, and funny, too, in a deadpan manner
Times Literary Supplement
And now for a brand new writer of formidable talent, Ian McEwan who is 27. His stories <i>First Love</i>, <i>Last Rites</i>…are the most devastating debut I have seen for a long time
Daily Mail