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Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. 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; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.
‘Wonderful…exquisite…devastating.’ Independent on Sunday
‘On Chesil Beach is more than an event. It is a masterpiece.’ Times Literary Supplement
‘Superb… The protagonists have everything to lose, and their faltering journey towards a point of no return is conjured into life my McEwan with irresistible subtlety, tact and force.’ Financial Times
‘Exquisitely crafted.’ Evening Standard
‘Written with a fierce pursuit of the truth and an utterly modern self-awareness, what a confidant tour de force this turns out to be.’ Sunday Express
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