The Cement Garden
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Description
In the arid summer heat, four children – Jack, Julie, Sue and Tom – find themselves abruptly orphaned. All the routines of childhood are cast aside as the children adapt to a now parentless world. Alone in the house together, the children’s lives twist into something unrecognisable as the outside begins to bear down on them.
A macabre but unforgettable tale
One of his very best… Deliciously disturbing.
A macabre but unforgettable tale
One of his very best… Deliciously disturbing.
An unforgettable tale
Hypnotic
An extremely assured, technically adept and compelling piece of work
Marvellously creates the atmosphere of youngsters given that instant adulthood they all crave, where the ordinary takes on a mysterious glow
A shocking book...irresistibly readable
Darkly impressive
Ian McEwan
is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. 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
;
Machines Like Me
; and
Lessons
.
Atonement
,
Enduring Love, The Children Act
and
On Chesil Beach
have all been adapted for the big screen.