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Biographical note
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, 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; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; Machines Like Me; and Lessons. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.Exhilarating
Independent
Ian McEwan writes stories of exquisite precision and clarity
Evening Standard
As far-fetched and funny as anything by Roald Dahl
Vogue
Perfectly judged, scary, poignant, meaningful; he makes it look easy, but this is brilliantly achieved
Guardian
These stories are so good, as acute about childhood preoccupations, and at times as disturbing as you would expect
Harpers & Queen
Brilliant...the quality of imagination at play here is something special
TES
Peter Fortune is a boy who likes to daydream. He dreams about swapping bodies with his cat and with his baby cousin, but he gets so lost he's unsure where one fantasy finishes and the next begins. Cartwheeling through these transformations, Peter eventually finds himself in an adult body experiencing the adventure of falling in love.
'As far-fetched and funny as anything by Roald Dahl' Vogue
'Perfectly judged, scary, poignant, meaningful; he makes it look easy, but this is brilliantly achieved' Guardian