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  • Published: 13 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9781473513853
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 8 hr 31 min
  • Narrator: David Threlfall

Enduring Love

AS FEAUTRED ON BBC2’S BETWEEN THE COVERS




NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

'I cannot remember the last time I read a novel so beautifully written or utterly compelling from the very first page' Bill Bryson, Sunday Times

One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them - something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him to the brink of murder and madness.

  • Published: 13 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9781473513853
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 8 hr 31 min
  • Narrator: David Threlfall

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.

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Praise for Enduring Love

Utterly compelling

Sunday Times

Hypnotically readable

Sunday Telegraph

Taut with narrative excitement and suspense

Sunday Times

A plot so engrossing that it seems reckless to pick the book up in the evening if you plan to get any sleep that night

A. S. Byatt, Daily Mail

He is the maestro at creating suspense

New Statesman

McEwan's exploration of his characters' lives and secret emotions is a virtuoso display of fictional subtlety and intelligence

Observer

A virtuoso display

Observer

[An] exquisite and suspenseful novel

Week

A page-turner, with a plot so engrossing that it seems reckless to pick the book up in the evening if you plan to get any sleep that night

A S Byatt, Daily Mail

Taut with narrative excitement and suspense...a novel of rich diversity that triumphantly integrates imagination and intelligence, rationality and emotional alertness

Sunday Times

He is the maestro at creating suspense: the particular, sickening, see-sawing kind that demands a kind of physical courage from the reader to continue reading

New Statesman