An important and unforgettable story, brilliantly re-told by Booker Prize-winner Ian McEwan.
Ian McEwan (Author)
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen 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; and Machines Like Me, which was a
number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act
and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.
Roberto Innocenti (Illustrator)
Roberto Innocenti was born in 1940 in Bagno a Ripoli, a small town
near Florence. Never having attended art school, he went to Rome to
work in an animation studio. Returning to Florence, he began
designing books and illustrating film and theatre posters. He has
illustrated Pinocchio, A Christmas Carol, J. Patrick Lewis's The
Last Resort and Ruth Vander Zee's Erika's Story. He lives in
Florence with his wife.
Offers the consolation, that goodness, even when unrecorded, is
still worth celebrating
*The Times*
Illustrated wth extraordinary, haunting pictures
*Daily Telegraph*
A modern fairy tale that does not flinch at reality
*Independent*
Bleak but rewarding
*The School Librarian*
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