The Child in Time

Name: The Child in Time
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Ian McEwan
ISBN: 9781436142007

Author: Ian McEwan

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Unabridged: 8 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/23/2008

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan is a Booker and Whitbread Prize winner. In this powerful tour de force, two parents come to appreciate the forces of love and time after the disappearance of their daughter, Kate. The Chicago Tribune raves, "Luminous, haunting, restrained...cuts to the core of human existence."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fabian on September 09, 2020

Aaahbsolute shite. The extra star is for the handsome writerly (Britishy) prose.* Other than that, yup: Shite! Turns out McEwan is the most polarizing writer I've ever encountered. The more stuff of his I read the more I am convinced that someone else wrote the gorgeous epic Atonement, not this class......more

Goodreads review by Suz on July 13, 2022

I need to remind myself that talented and established authors such as these compose high quality literary fiction. This genre doesn't always suit my tastes, but this one appealed to me years ago, about the premise of a man losing his young daughter in a crowded supermarket. Kate was only three years......more