If there were to remain any doubt about McEwan being a highly topical writer, the novel Saturday would clear those away. In some ways, it is even more historically and politically relevant than Atonement; indeed, it is supposed to reflect similar themes. While the latter book discusses the ...
The Child in Time, which pursued themes of innocence and loss, and Enduring Love, which prolonged the trauma of that ballooning accident with nagging guilt and a deranged obsession, both flowed from appallingly visceral calamities that embroiled and bowled over their innocent protagonists. McEwan's ...