Winner of the booker prize. On a chilly February day two old friends mmet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly s lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain s most successful modern composer, Vernon as editor of the quelity broadsheet The Judge. Georgeous, feisty Milly had other lovers too, notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be prime minister. In the days that follow Molly s funeral, Clive and Vernn will make a pact that will have consequuences neither has foressen. Each will make a disastrous moral decision, their friendship will be tested to its limits and Julian Garmony will be fighting for his political life.
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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.
