In 1946, a young couple set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they plan an idyllic holiday, only to encounter an experience of darkness so terrifying it alters their lives forever.
One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organized lifeis shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects,could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry.
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down.
'Letzter Sommertag' vereint eine Auswahl von Geschichten aus den Büchern 'Erste Liebe, letzte Riten' und 'Zwischen den Laken', mit denen Ian McEwan berühmt wurde.
Die Keats-Forscherin Clarissa und der Wissenschaftsjournalist Joe waren ein glückliches Paar - bis zu dem Tag, an dem Joe den tödlichen Ausgang eines Ballonunfalls mitverschuldet....
The year is 1972. The Cold War is far from over. Britain is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism. Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5.
In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves...
'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 ...
As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear.
The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team.
He aquí el hombre: un hombre hediondo, borracho, brutalmente sanguinario. Henry Drax es el principal arponero del Volunteer, un barco ballenero que zarpa desde Yorkshire para dirigirse a las ricas aguas de caza del Círculo Polar Ártico.