First Lines: Ian McEwan - Sweet Tooth

 

My names is Serena Frome (rhymes with plume) and almost forty years ago I was sent on a secret mission for the British security service.

The Children Act (2017)

As her marriage crumbles, a judge must decide a case involving a teenage boy who is refusing a blood transfusion on religious principle.

The judicial issue is simply the premise for the well-balanced examination of the boy's fixation on the judge, which opens even deeper issues; Emma Thompson delivers another mainificent performance.

New Stuff: Ian McEwan

First Lines: Ian McEwan - Saturday

Some hours before dawn Henry Perowne, a neurosurgeon, wakes to find himself already in motion, pushing back the covers from a sitting position, and then rising to his feet.

New Stuff: Ian McEwan

New Stuff: Ian McEwan

Admittedly, I'm a bit late getting Ian McEwan's latest novel.

First Lines: Ian McEwan - Amsterdam

Two former lovers of Molly Lane stood waiting outside the crematorium chapel with their backs to the February chill.

First Lines: Ian McEwan - Enduring Love

The beginning is simple to mark.

First Lines: Ian McEwan - Atonement

The play – for Which Briony had designed the posters, programs and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its side, and lined the collection box in red crêpe paper – was written by her in a two-day tempest of composition, causing her to miss a breakfast and a lunch.

First Lines: Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach

They were young, educated, and both virgins on this, their wedding night, and they lived in a time when a conversation about sexual difficulties was plainly impossible.

First Lines: Ian McEwan - Solar

He belonged to that class of men - vaguely unprepossessing, often bald, short, fat, clever - who were unaccountably attractive to certain beautiful women.

New Stuff: Ian McEwan

I never miss out, when Ian McEwan publishes a new book.