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A brilliant performance. There's an assured and terribly macabre depravity about Ian McEwan's short stories ...
I judge it his best yet, which I should make clear is saying a great deal - Observer
Ian McEwan is a critically acclaimed author of short stories and novels for adults, as well as The Daydreamer, a children's novel illustrated by Anthony Browne. 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 and Saturday.
Website: http://www.ianmcewan.com
Winner of the 1998 Booker Prize
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE'I cannot remember the last time I read a novel so beautifully written or utterly compelling form the very first page' Bill Bryson, Sunday Times
The best thing he has ever written - Observer
A grriping novel centering around the London anti-war protest in 2003, from the Booker prize-winning author of Atonement and Enduring Love
Can a gesture made or a word not spoken change the entire course of a life?
A powerful drama of passion, obsession and tragedy from one of Britain’s greatest living writers.
The Daydreamer takes the reader out of reality and into the dream world of 10 year old Peter Fortune
His stories are so resonant and frightening because they are totally original. They are about the recognisable world of private fantasy and nightmare - a world, despite our protestations to the contrary ...