Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen 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; 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.
Savagely funny... Enormously entertaining * Sunday Times * A satirical masterpiece...it will come to be regarded as a classic * Daily Telegraph * A stunningly accomplished work, possibly his best yet * Financial Times * McEwan has succeeded in producing a novel that is both profoundly serious and hilariously funny * Mail on Sunday * Vivacious and sprawling, a beautifully and compellingly written novel * The Times * Wonderfully enjoyable... He shows a side to himself as a writer - a puckishness, a broadness of humour, an extravagance of style - that we haven't seen before -- Sam Leith * Spectator * From an early stage, McEwan's sumptuously textured language rested on a flair for finely engineered design * Independent * He's green and he should be read * Observer *