Author(s): Ian McEwan

Literary Fiction

Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch'Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty? Benedict CumberbatchOn a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children?s books, turns his back momentarily. When he looks around again, his child is gone. In a single moment, everything is changed. The kidnapping has a devastating effect on Stephen?s life and marriage. Memories and the present become inseparable - as Stephen gets lost in daydreams of the past - and time bends back on itself, dragging Stephen?s own childhood back into the present.