Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Child in Time

Ian McEwan

3.59/5 (10367 ratings)

Read Now Download Now

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.

Format:

Pages:: 263 pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: 5th or later Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0385497520

ISBN13:: 9780385497527

kindle Asin:: B07XB48PRN

The Child in Time

Ian McEwan

3.59/5 (10367 ratings)

Read Download

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.

Format:

Pages:: 263 pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: 5th or later Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0385497520

ISBN13:: 9780385497527

kindle Asin:: B07XB48PRN

More Books

Curiosities

Anne Fleming

Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England

Sebastian Payne

Harmless Like You

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Engleby

Sebastian Faulks

The Singularity

Dino Buzzati

Io sono la bestia

Andrea Donaera

The Anatomy Lesson

Philip Roth

Resolution (Ray Lennox, #3)

Irvine Welsh

The Dervish House

Ian McDonald

A Sentimental Journey

Laurence Sterne

Nemesis

Philip Roth

Los suicidas

Antonio di Benedetto