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The Cement Garden
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  • Published: 13 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9781473513907
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 4 hr 27 min
  • Narrator: Julian Rhind-Tutt

The Cement Garden

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1 July 2010
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13 Nov 2014
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'A superb achievement: his prose has instant, lucid beauty and his narrative voice has a perfect poise and certainty. His account of deprivation and survival is marvellously sure, and the imaginative alignment of his story is exactly right' - Tom Paulin

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...
  • Published: 13 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9781473513907
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 4 hr 27 min
  • Narrator: Julian Rhind-Tutt
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About the author

Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. 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; Machines Like Me; and Lessons. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

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Praise for The Cement Garden

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

It is difficult to fault the writing or the construction of this eerie fable

Sunday Times