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The Cement Garden

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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...

Critics Review

A macabre but unforgettable tale
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
It is difficult to fault the writing or the construction of this eerie fable
Sunday Times
Author Ian McEwan
Narrator Julian Rhind-Tutt
Duration 4 hours and 27 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781473513907
Format Audiobook
Publisher Random House
Genre Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
Availability AU, GB, IE

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