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Black Dogs

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099277088

  • Length: 224  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 197g

  • RRP: £8.99

Black Dogs

Black Dogs is a dark and brooding masterpiece from Booker-prize winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan.

In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they had planned an idyllic holiday, but in France they witness an event that alters the course of their lives entirely. Forty years on, their son-in-law is trying to uncover the cause of their estrangement and is led back to this moment on honeymoon and an experience of such darkness it was to wrench the couple apart.

‘Powerful... Unforgettable’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Thoughtful and compassionate’ London Review of Books

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099277088

  • Length: 224  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 197g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • Powerful... Unforgettable

    Sunday Telegraph

  • His best yet, which I should make clear is saying a great deal

    Observer

  • Brilliant...a meditation on the intoxications of violence and the redemptive power of love

    New Yorker

  • Superbly evocative prose... The novel's vision of Europe is acute and alive, vivid in its moral complexities

    New York Times Book Review

  • Compassionate without resorting to sentimentality, clever without ever losing its honesty, an undisguised novel of ideas which is also Ian McEwan's most human work

    Times Literary Supplement

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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.

Ian McEwan

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