Nutshell Paperback by Ian McEwan

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage Canada (2017-05-30)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 224 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780345812414
• Item Weight: 238.14 grams
• Dimensions: 7.98 x 5.41 x 0.64 cm

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Globe and Mail • The New York Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Daily Telegraph • The Guardian • The Washington Post • A “suspenseful, dazzlingly clever and gravely profound” (The Washington Post) novel that brilliantly recasts Shakespeare and lends new weight to the age-old question of Hamlet's hesitation, from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Lessons, On Chesil Beach and Atonement.

Trudy has been unfaithful to her husband, John. She's still in the marital home—a valuable old London townhouse—but she has kicked John out. In his place is her lover, John's own brother, the profoundly banal Claude. The illicit couple have hatched a murderous plan to rid themselves of her inconvenient husband forever. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb. As Trudy's unborn son listens, bound within her body, to the tragic end that his mother and his uncle have planned for his hapless father, he gives us a truly new perspective on our world, seen from the confines of his.

“Smart, funny, and utterly captivating.” —The New York Times
“A psychological thriller of the first order.” —The Weekly Standard

About the Author

IAN McEWAN is the critically acclaimed author of many novels and two collections of short stories. 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. He was awarded a CBE in 2000.