The Child in Time
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  • Published: 13 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9781473513921
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 8 hr 4 min
  • Narrator: Nathaniel Parker
  • RRP: $19.99

The Child in Time

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Paperback
25 Jul 1997
EBook
1 Jul 2010
Audiobook
13 Nov 2014
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'Spooky - wonderful' Observer

The Child in Time opens with a harrowing event. Stephen Lewis,a successful author of children's books, takes his three-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 and time itself.
  • Published: 13 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9781473513921
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 8 hr 4 min
  • Narrator: Nathaniel Parker
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

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 The Child in Time

This book describes the panic of losing a child… The engulfing destructive pain is brilliantly explored

Alison Steadman, Week

It is marvellously written, moving, serious, readable... If you want to be appalled, refreshed, exhilarated, enlivened - read it

Sunday Times

The Child in Time is an extraordinary achievement

Guardian

His best work to date

Irish Times

Spooky...a wonderful novel

Observer

His masterpiece

Christopher Hitchens

Artistically, morally, and politically, he excels

The Times

The Child in Time is a dense, atmospheric book as much concerned with philosophical debate as with plot.

Daily Telegraph

The Child in Time is an extraordinary achievement in which form and content, theory and practice, are so expertly and inseparably interwoven that the novel becomes an advertisement for, or proof of, its own thesis.

Sheila Macleod, Guardian