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The Child in Time

By Ian McEwan

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| Paperback | 9780385497527

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Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his only child, three-year-old Kate, is snatched from him in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realizes his daughter is gone.

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Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his only child, three-year-old Kate, is snatched from him in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realizes his daughter is gone.

With extraordinary tenderness and insight, Booker Prize–winning author Ian McEwan takes us into the dark territory of a marriage devastated by the loss of a child. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife, Julie, on diverging paths as they each struggle with a grief that only seems to intensify with the passage of time. Eloquent and passionate, the novel concludes in a triumphant scene of love and hope that gives full rein to the author's remarkable gifts. The winner of the Whitbread Prize, The Child in Time is an astonishing novel by one of the finest writers of his generation.

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    A Labour victory in the 1987 British General Election would have been a good thing for The Book and the Brotherhood and a disaster for The Child in Time. As it is, with Mrs Thatcher set to complete at least 13 years in office, Iris Murdoch may now be ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

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    The story began 2 years after Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children books, lost her daughter to abduction on a trip to the supermarket. This is only a backdrop to a much more complicated plot of political conspiracy, insanity and time travel. Ian McEwan proved himself again as the master ... (continue)

    The story began 2 years after Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children books, lost her daughter to abduction on a trip to the supermarket. This is only a backdrop to a much more complicated plot of political conspiracy, insanity and time travel. Ian McEwan proved himself again as the master of psychological thrillers of our time.

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