The Child in Time
About this book
Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his only child, three-year-old Kate, is snatched from him in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realizes his daughter is gone. With extraordinary tenderness and insight, Booker Prize-winning author Ian McEwan takes us into the dark territory of a marriage devastated by the loss of a child. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife, Julie, on diverging paths as they each struggle with a grief that only seems to intensify with the passage of time. Eloquent and passionate, the novel concludes in a triumphant scene of love and hope.
Subjects
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- children of divorced parents
- divorce
- divorcio
- ficción
- fiction
- hijos de padres divorciados
- literature
- missing children
- missing persons, fiction
- new york times reviewed
- sex traffic