Amsterdam

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A sharp contemporary morality tale cleverly disguised as a comic novel Amsterdam is a dark tour de force perfectly fashioned (The New York Times) from the bestselling author of Atonement. On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last 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 is Britain's most successful modern composer and Vernon is a newspaper editor. Gorgeous feisty Molly had other lovers too notably Julian Garmony Foreign Secretary a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next prime minister. In the days that follow Molly's funeral Clive and Vernon will make a pact with consequences that neither could have foreseen… . Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel Lessons.