One of this author's protagonists gets into a car accident on his way to a squash match and is later held hostage by the man he hit, Baxter, who is disarmed and subdued after Daisy recites "Dover Beach".
One of this author's protagonists gets into a car accident on his way to a squash match and is later held hostage by the man he hit, Baxter, who is disarmed and subdued after Daisy recites "Dover Beach". Another of his novels begins with the funeral of Molly Lane and ends with two of her rival lovers, Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday, carrying out a euthanasia pact. This author, who wrote about the neurologist Henry Perowne in (*) Saturday, penned a novel which ends with the narrator revealing that while Paul Marshall did marry Lola, Robbie Turner and Cecilia were never reunited. For 10 points, name this contemporary British author of Amsterdam, who wrote about Briony Tallis in Atonement.
One of this author's protagonists gets into a car accident on his way to a squash match and is later held hostage by the man he hit, Baxter, who is disarmed and subdued after Daisy recites "Dover Beach".
Ian Russell McEwan