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The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
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The Child in Time

by Ian McEwan
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Narrator Nathaniel Parker

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Length 8 hours 3 minutes
Language English
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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 there, Lewis spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and time itself.

FictionFiction - Literary

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.

Audiobook details

Author:

Narrator:
Nathaniel Parker

ISBN:
9781473513921

Length:
8 hours 3 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Random House

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Edition:
Unabridged

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Spooky...a wonderful novel The Child in Time is an extraordinary achievement It is marvellously written, moving, serious, readable... If you want to be appalled, refreshed, exhilarated, enlivened - read it His masterpiece Artistically, morally, and politically, he excels Expand reviews
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