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The Child in Time
 

The Child in Time

by Ian McEwan

The Child in Time opens with a harrowing event. Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children's books, takes his 3-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... (read more)

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Common Calluna
  • Rated 4 stars

“I liked this novel - not quite as much as Atonement, but then the main character was a bit older and a father, so further from my own frame of reference. McEwan is a master at capturing emotions, and if I were a parent, I think the lump in my throat would have been even bigger throughout; he did have my eyes welling up a few times. I like how he ventured into physics and metaphysics, with the whole them of time and age playing throughout.”

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Peach
  • Rated 2 stars

“I feel a bit unfair to The Child in Time. If I had children, I suspect this book would have kept me riveted to its pages. Perhaps since I don’t, I enjoyed McEwan’s competent writing but much of its emotional content passed me by.

The Child in Time begins with a simple premise. The main character, Stephen Lewis, looks away from his three-year old daughter in a supermarket one day, and in that moment she is stolen. McEwan begins his story here, after Stephen has lost his...”

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  • Rated 3.870968 stars
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  • Rated 4.5 stars
  

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