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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; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.
Compulsively readable... McEwan's prose keeps its cutting edge and his books are the ones the reading public still crave... A masterly balance between research and imagination... One feels an immediate pleasure in returning to prose of uncommon clarity, unshowiness and control * The Times * Classic McEwan... It's a pleasure from start to finish, one not to be interrupted * Guardian * A powerful, humane novel * Evening Standard * One of the finest writers alive * Sunday Times * McEwan writes as beautifully and elegantly as ever, his prose quintessentially English in its restraint, one meticulously chosen word hinting at depths of emotion * Washington Post * A finely written, engaging read... Poignant, challenging and lyrical * Sunday Express * A class act by one of our finest novelists. -- Viv Groskop * Red * A compelling moral dilemma [with] a moving and heartfelt denouement. * Tatler * Shows McEwan as a master of fiction. -- Olivia Cole * GQ * It is one most extraordinary, powerful, moving reading experiences of my life. It is an utterly remarkable novel, delicately balanced, perfectly crafted, beautifully written. -- Alberto Manguel
