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She has written a number of children's books, some which have been translated into French, German and Dutch. McAfee has also edited an anthology of literary profiles from The Guardian. McAfee married the British novelist Ian McEwan in 1997 after having first met him at an interview she conducted for a profile in the Financial Times. [1]
Two years later in 1997, McEwan married Annalena McAfee, a journalist and writer who was formerly the editor of The Guardian ' s Review section. [ 64 ] In 2002, McEwan discovered that he had a brother who had been given up for adoption during the Second World War; the story became public in 2007. [ 65 ]
The Child in Time. The Child in Time (1987) is a novel by Ian McEwan. The story concerns Stephen, an author of children's books, and his wife, two years after the kidnapping of their three-year-old daughter Kate. The Child in Time divided critics. It won the Whitbread Novel Award for 1987 and has sometimes been declared one of McEwan's greatest ...
United Kingdom. Pages. 224 pages. ISBN. 978-0-224-10199-8. The Children Act is a novel by the English writer Ian McEwan. It was published on 2 September 2014. The title is a reference to the Children Act 1989, a UK Act of Parliament. The book has been compared to Charles Dickens 's Bleak House, with its similar settings, and opening lines.
On a beautiful and cloudless day, a middle-aged couple celebrate their union with a picnic. Joe Rose, aged 47, and his long term partner Clarissa Mellon are about to open a bottle of wine when a cry interrupts them. A helium balloon, with a ten-year-old boy in the basket and his grandfather being dragged behind it, has been ripped from its ...
Atonement is a 2001 British metafictional novel written by Ian McEwan.Set in three time periods, 1935 England, Second World War England and France, and present-day England, it covers an upper-class girl's half-innocent mistake that ruins lives, her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake, and a reflection on the nature of writing.
0-224-07299-4. OCLC. 57559845. Saturday (2005) is a novel by Ian McEwan. It is set in Fitzrovia, central London, on Saturday, 15 February 2003, as a large demonstration is taking place against the United States' 2003 invasion of Iraq. The protagonist, Henry Perowne, a 48-year-old neurosurgeon, has planned a series of errands and pleasures ...
Ian McEwan is known for his grand ambitions, but "Lessons" might be his first epic novel. He discusses its scope and his hopes and fears for the future Ian McEwan reflects on 'the hope and ...