The Child in Time
by By McEwan, Ian
Category: Fiction , Literary

Soon to be on public television starring Benedict Cumberbatch.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.