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By putting one of our authors on the 'Hotspot' we hope to give
you and your reading group the chance to have all those burning
questions you might have, answered by the authors themselves - we
can't imagine a more direct way of uncovering an author's motivations
and intentions!
Ian McEwan is our Hotspot author this month. We welcome him into
the spotlight to answer the questions you sent in about his much-admired
novel Enduring
Love.
Ian McEwan's first published work, a collection of short stories
called 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 and Amsterdam,
which won the 1998 Booker Prize. His most recent novel is Atonement.
He lives in Oxford.
One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organized
life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose
reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting
with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them -
something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful
that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved scientific rationalism,
threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him to the brink
of murder and madness.
Read Ian McEwan's Q and A session for a remarkable insight into
his motivations for writing his story and a greater understanding
of his sources of inspiration.
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