The Child in Time

Author Ian McEwan
Narrator Nathaniel Parker
Publisher Random House
Publish Date 13 November 2014
Run Time 8 hours and 4 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Love and relationships.

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What to expect

The Child in Time opens with a harrowing event. Stephen Lewis,a successful author of children's books, takes his three-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From there, Lewis spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and time itself.

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Spooky…a wonderful novel

Observer

The Child in Time is an extraordinary achievement

Guardian

It is marvellously written, moving, serious, readable… If you want to be appalled, refreshed, exhilarated, enlivened – read it

Sunday Times

His masterpiece

Christopher Hitchens

Artistically, morally, and politically, he excels

The Times

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