Editions

The Cement Garden

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099755111

  • Length: 160  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 12mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 144g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Cement Garden

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.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099755111

  • Length: 160  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 12mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 144g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • "An unforgettable tale"

    John Boyne, Guardian

  • "Hypnotic"

    John Updike, New Yorker

  • "An extremely assured, technically adept and compelling piece of work"

    Observer

  • "Marvellously creates the atmosphere of youngsters given that instant adulthood they all crave, where the ordinary takes on a mysterious glow"

    Sunday Times

  • "A shocking book...irresistibly readable"

    New York Review of Books

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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; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.

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