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The Child in Time

By: Ian McEwan
Narrated by: Nathaniel Parker
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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. Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature

Critic reviews

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 (Christopher Hitchens)
Artistically, morally, and politically, he excels
His best work to date
This book describes the panic of losing a child… The engulfing destructive pain is brilliantly explored (Alison Steadman)
The Child in Time is a dense, atmospheric book as much concerned with philosophical debate as with plot.
The Child in Time is an extraordinary achievement in which form and content, theory and practice, are so expertly and inseparably interwoven that the novel becomes an advertisement for, or proof of, its own thesis. (Sheila Macleod)
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