num_pages: 263
description: 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 that gives full rein to the author's remarkable gifts. The winner of the Whitbread Prize, The Child in Time is an astonishing novel by one of the finest writers of his generation.
language: English
title: The Child in Time
titlecomplete: The Child in Time
characters: Stephen Lewis
genres: Literature, British Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Drama, Novels, Fiction, Audiobook, Adult Fiction
ratings_count: 13583
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Whitbread Award, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Prix Femina
category: Étranger
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt