The Child in Time

A child’s abduction sends a father reeling in this Whitbread Award-winning novel that explores time and loss with “narrative daring and imaginative genius” (Kirkus Reviews starred review).   Stephen Lewis a successful author of children’s books is on a routine trip to the supermarket with his three-year-old daughter. In a brief moment of distraction she suddenly vanishes—and is irretrievably lost. From that moment Lewis spirals into bereavement that effects his marriage his psyche and his relationship with time itself: “It was a wonder that there could be so much movement so much purpose all the time. He himself had none at all.”   In The Child in Time acclaimed author Ian McEwan “sets a story of domestic horror against a disorienting exploration in time” producing “a work of remarkable intellectual and political sophistication” that has been adapted into a PBS Masterpiece movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch (Kirkus Reviews starred review).  “A beautifully rendered very disturbing novel.” —Publishers Weekly