Amsterdam

***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE***Two old friends - Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday - meet at the funeral of gorgeous witty Molly Lane. Both men had been Mollys lovers years before their dazzling success; Clive is Britains most eminent modern composer and Vernon is the editor of the respected broadsheet The Judge. In the weeks that follow Clive and Vernons lives become bound together in ways neither could have imagined. Two dubious moral decisions and a pact made in extremis lead them both to the heart of Amsterdam. Review A psychologically brilliant study of heartlessness ―Sunday TelegraphOne of the finest writers alive ―Sunday TimesFull of gusto straightforward and delivers blows to the gut...shocking -- A. S. Byatt ―Literary ReviewMcEwan writes here with unobtrusive panache ―Daily TelegraphAmsterdam is brilliantly engineered and marvellously entertaining ―Evening Standard About the Author Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen novels and two short story collections. His first published work a collection of short storiesFirst Love Last Rites won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels includeThe 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; andMachines Like Me which was a number-one bestseller.AtonementEnduring Love The Children Act andOn Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.