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The Child in Time

By Ian McEwan

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| Paperback | 9780099755012

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"The Child in Time" opens with a harrowing event. Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children's books, takes his three-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From thContinue

"The Child in Time" opens with a harrowing event. Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children's books, takes his three-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From there, Lewis spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and time itself.

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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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