First Love, Last Rites

A talented and genuine imaginative writer. McEwan's details often grow into strange, powerful images - the ironies, throughout this impressive collection, are tellingly weighted

Julian Barnes

Marks the debut of a talented and genuinely imaginative writer

Julian Barnes, New Statesman

A writer of uncanny power

Time

As promising a first collection of stories as I have ever come across

Vogue

A brilliant performance

Observer

Ian McEwan writes to shock and succeeds... It is a tour-de-force of concision, and funny, too, in a deadpan manner

Gabriele Annan, Times Literary Supplement

Ian McEwan writes to shock and succeeds... All his stories have a feeling of impending evil - it is a tour de force of concision, and funny, too, in a deadpan manner

Times Literary Supplement

And now for a brand new writer of formidable talent, Ian McEwan who is 27. His stories First Love, Last Rites…are the most devastating debut I have seen for a long time

Peter Lewis, Daily Mail

His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing

The Times

A brilliant debut by the most promising writer around

A. Alvarez, Observer Books of the Year

The Maestro

New Statesman

Now 40 years since first publication, McEwan's first published work is still his most hauntingly dark and atmospheric.

Esquire

McEwan has - a style and a vision of life of his own... No one interested in the state and mood of contemporary Britain can afford not to read him

John Fowles

A sparkling and adventurous writer

Dennis Potter

Marks the debut of a talented and genuinely imaginative writer

Julian Barnes, New Statesman

As promising a first collection of stories as I have ever come across

Vogue

Ian McEwan writes to shock and succeeds... It is a tour-de-force of concision, and funny, too, in a deadpan manner

Gabriele Annan, Times Literary Supplement

And now for a brand new writer of formidable talent, Ian McEwan who is 27. His stories First Love, Last Rites…are the most devastating debut I have seen for a long time

Peter Lewis, Daily Mail

A brilliant debut by the most promising writer around

A. Alvarez, Observer Books of the Year

Marks the debut of a talented and genuinely imaginative writer

Julian Barnes, New Statesman

As promising a first collection of stories as I have ever come across

Vogue

Ian McEwan writes to shock and succeeds... It is a tour-de-force of concision, and funny, too, in a deadpan manner

Gabriele Annan, Times Literary Supplement

And now for a brand new writer of formidable talent, Ian McEwan who is 27. His stories First Love, Last Rites…are the most devastating debut I have seen for a long time

Peter Lewis, Daily Mail

A brilliant debut by the most promising writer around

A. Alvarez, Observer Books of the Year

Now 40 years since first publication, McEwan's first published work is still his most hauntingly dark and atmospheric.

Esquire