A classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world's
master storytellers - 'a masterpiece' The Times
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.
An astonishing act of literary ventriloquism unlike any in recent
literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work
from a true master… Told from a perspective unlike any other,
Nutshell is a shocking tale of murder and treachery from one of the
world’s master storytellers.
*Daily Telegraph*
A creative gamble that pays off brilliantly…Witty and gently
tragic, this short, bewitching novel is an ode to humanity’s
beauty, selfishness and inextinguishable longing.
*Mail on Sunday*
Ian McEwan’s embryonic spin on Hamlet is a virtuoso feat of
wordplay … Virtuoso entertainment.
*Observer*
While the literary device of an unborn baby narrating a novel from
the womb is hardly original… Ian McEwan employs it with aplomb...
Here everything is tightly controlled and the tension ratchets up
as our all-knowing unborn watches helplessly from his watery sack
while the dastardly plan progresses through a series of nail-biting
moments… The ending is beautifully contrived… The book is elegantly
written with plenty of pungent, topical observations upon the
world.
*Daily Mail*
At once playful and deadly serious, delightful and frustrating it
is one of McEwan’s hardest to categorise works, and all the more
interesting for it.
*The Times*
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