Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch 'Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty' Benedict Cumberbatch
Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch‘Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty’ Benedict CumberbatchOn a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children’s books, turns his back momentarily.
Rejacketed in a stunning new series style for 2023, The Child in Time is the extraordinary novel behind the major BBC drama starring Benedict CumberbatchNow a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch'Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty' Benedict CumberbatchOn a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children's books, turns his back momentarily. When he looks around again, his child is gone. In a single moment, everything is changed. The kidnapping has a devastating effect on Stephen's life and marriage. Memories and the present become inseparable - as Stephen gets lost in daydreams of the past - and time bends back on itself, dragging Stephen's own childhood back into the present.
Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Novel Category 1987 Winner of Whitbread Prize (Novel) 1987
“His masterpiece”
Spooky...a wonderful novel Observer
The Child in Time is an extraordinary achievement Guardian
It is marvellously written, moving, serious, readable... If you want to be appalled, refreshed, exhilarated, enlivened - read it Sunday Times
Artistically, morally, and politically, he excels The Times
His best work to date Irish Times
This book describes the panic of losing a child… The engulfing destructive pain is brilliantly explored Week
The Child in Time is a dense, atmospheric book as much concerned with philosophical debate as with plot. Daily Telegraph
Spooky...a wonderful novel Observer
The Child in Time is an extraordinary achievement Guardian
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of eighteen novels and two short story collections. 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; Nutshell; Machines Like Me; and Lessons. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.
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