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The Comfort of Strangers

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099754916

  • Length: 176  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 157g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Comfort of Strangers

Rediscover the classic novel of love, violence and obsessions from Booker prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan.

Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows no bounds. Away on a holiday together in a nameless city, they get lost one evening in a labyrinth of streets and canals. They happen upon Robert, a stranger with a dark history, who takes them to a bar and ushers them down into a subterranean land of violence and obsession.

‘Haunting and compelling’ The Times

‘No reader will begin The Comfort of Strangers and fail to finish it; a black magician is at work’ New York Times

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099754916

  • Length: 176  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 157g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • Haunting and compelling

    The Times

  • No reader will begin The Comfort of Strangers and fail to finish it; a black magician is at work

    New York Times

  • This compelling, driven novel explores what it might be like to lose yourself forever

    Guardian

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

    The Times

  • McEwan, that master of the taciturn macabre, so organises his narrative that, without insisting anything, every turn and glimpse is another tightening of the noose

    Observer

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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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