This is an excellent guide to 'Enduring Love'. It features a biography of the author, a full-length analysis of the novel, and a great deal more. If youre studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you simply want to know more about it, youll find this guide informative, intelligent, [...]

One of the Best Books of the Year: "The Washington Post," NPR, "Vogue," "BookRiot"
Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judgewho presides over cases in the family division. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude, and sensitivity.Buther professional success belies private sorrow an[...]

This introduction to the work of Ian McEwan places his fiction in historical and theoretical context. It explores his biography, literary techniques and the issues of ethics and representation. Including a timeline of key dates and an interview with the author it also offers an overview of the criti[...]

Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window of his bedroom and filled with a growing unease. What troubles him as he looks ou[...]

Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most established, and controversial, writers. This book introduces students to a range of critical approaches to McEwan's fiction.[...]

Do you want a better understanding of the text? Do you want to know what the critics say? Do you want to know how to improve your grade? Whatever you want, York Notes can help. York Notes Advanced offers a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been com[...]

Conversations with Ian McEwan collects sixteen interviews, conducted over three decades, with the British author of such highly praised novels as Enduring Love, Atonement, Saturday, and On Chesil Beach. McEwan (b. 1948) discusses his views on authorship, the writing process, and major themes found i[...]

On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By [...]

Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and t[...]

England, in den frühen 60-er Jahren. Von Jugendaufbruch, Beatlemania, sexueller Befreiung noch keine Spur. Edward und Florence haben geheiratet und sehen in einem Hotel am Strand ihrer Hochzeitsnacht entgegen, die furchtbar daneben geht; es kommt zu einem vernichtenden Streit, der beider Leben für[...]