Published: 2 January 2006
ISBN: 9780099469681
Imprint: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
RRP: $19.99

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Saturday

Ian McEwan

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The bestselling novel by one of Britain's finest writers now in paperback.

Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window of his bedroom and filled with a growing unease. What troubles him as he looks out at the night sky is the state of the world – the impending war against Iraq, a gathering pessimism since 9/11, and a fear that his city and his happy family life are under threat.Later, Perowne makes his way to his weekly squash game through London streets filled with hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors. A minor car accident brings him into a confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive, young man, on the edge of violence. To Perowne's professional eye, there appears to be something profoundly wrong with him.Towards the end of a day rich in incident and filled with Perowne's celebrations of life's pleasures, his family gathers for a reunion. But with the sudden appearance of Baxter, Perowne's earlier fears seem about to be realised.

Published: 2 January 2006
ISBN: 9780099469681
Imprint: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
RRP: $19.99

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Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

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Praise for Saturday

Written with superb exactness, complex, suspenseful and humane, this novel.reinforces his status as the supreme novelist of his generation
Sunday Times

Dazzling. Profound and urgent
Observer

It's the good writing and the truthful and convincing way of rendering consciousness that makes Saturday so engrossing
Colm Toibin

Richly laden. McEwan pulls out all the stops. A rich book, sensuous and thoughtful. McEwan has found in Saturday the right form to showcase his dazzling talents
Sunday Telegraph

Everyone should read Saturday. Artistically, morally and politically, he excels
The Times

Saturday is wonderfully involving and affecting on every page. Everybody with any interest in contemporary literature will want to read it at once
Evening Standard