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Book Description
"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
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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)
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- English Books
- Paperback 256 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 0099755017
- ISBN-13: 9780099755012
- Publisher: VINTAGE (RAND)
- Pub date: Jun 05, 1997
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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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)