![]() On a depleted inheritance and lacklustre day-trading. The setting, run-down Victorian suburbia between Stockwell and Clapham North - bedsit land, introduces us to Charlie and Miranda.Ĭharlie is in his early thirties: a continuing interest in electronics and computing, a degree in Anthropology and a criminal conviction for abetting tax avoidance. McEwan's ploy is to set the novel in an alternate 1982 reality where Anthony Wedgwood Benn and Margaret Thatcher are proxies for Corbyn and May, and where the Falklands war (and in the background, More discerning about actually-existing human nature, not less. ![]() ![]() ![]() If there’s any overriding requirement on the novelist, it's surely to be Ian McEwan believes that it's difficult to write a novel today: “too many constituencies”. ![]()
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