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      The Child in Time

      by Ian McEwan
      Published
      Jun 1997
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      A child's abduction sends a father reeling in this Whitbread Award-winning novel that explores time and loss with "narrative daring and imaginative genius" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

       


      Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children's books, is on a routine trip to the supermarket with his three-year-old daughter. In a brief moment of distraction, she suddenly vanishes—and is irretrievably lost. From that moment, Lewis spirals into bereavement that effects his marriage, his psyche, and his relationship with time itself: "It was a wonder that there could be so much movement, so much purpose, all the time. He himself had none at all."


       


      In The Child in Time, acclaimed author Ian McEwan "sets a story of domestic horror against a disorienting exploration in time" producing "a work of remarkable intellectual and political sophistication" that has been adapted into a PBS Masterpiece movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).


       

      "A beautifully rendered, very disturbing novel." —Publishers Weekly

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      Sep 1988 Penguin ISBN13 9780140112467 ISBN10 0140112464
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      Jun 1997 Vintage (UK) ISBN13 9780099755012 ISBN10 0099755017
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      Sep 1987 Houghton Mifflin ISBN13 9780395429129 ISBN10 0395429129
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      Dec 2005 HarperCollins (UK) ISBN13 9780007207039 ISBN10 0007207034
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      Nov 2009 Rosettabooks LLC ISBN13 9780795304095 ISBN10 0795304099
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      Dec 1997 ISIS Large Print Books ISBN13 9781856953429 ISBN10 1856953424
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