Editions

The Cement Garden

  • Imprint: Vintage Digital

  • ISBN: 9781473513907

  • Length: 267  Minutes

  • RRP: £9.00

The Cement Garden

In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves...

  • Imprint: Vintage Digital

  • ISBN: 9781473513907

  • Length: 267  Minutes

  • RRP: £9.00

Reviews

  • "A macabre but unforgettable tale"

    John Boyne, Guardian

  • "Darkly impressive"

    The Times

  • "Marvellously creates the atmosphere of youngsters given that instant adulthood they all crave, where the ordinary takes on a mysterious glow and the extraordinary seems rather commonplace. It is difficult to fault the writing or the construction of this eerie fable"

    Sunday Times

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

    Observer

  • "A shocking book, morbid, full of repellant imagery - and irresistibly readable...The effect achieved by McEwan's quiet, precise and sensuous touch is that of magic realism - a transfiguration of the ordinary that has far stronger retinal and visceral impact than the flabby surrealism of so many experimental novels"

    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.

Ian McEwan

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