Soon after, the mother too dies and the children, fearful of being separated by social services, decide to cover up their parents’ deaths: they bury their mother in the cement garden.
In the process, he has a heart attack and dies, leaving the cement garden unfinished and the children to the care of their mother. A father of four children decides, in an effort to make his garden easier to control, to pave it over. This “powerful and disconcerting” novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Children Act and Atonement ( The Daily Telegraph) tells the story of a dying family who live in a dying part of the city. "A sparkling and adventurous writer.Orphaned siblings create a macabre secret world for themselves in this “irresistibly readable” novel by the New York Times-bestselling author ( The New York Review of Books). "McEwan has-a style and a vision of life of his own.No one interested in the state and mood of contemporary Britain can afford not to read him." - John Fowles "His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing." - The Times "A shocking book, morbid, full of repellant imagery - and irresistibly readable.The effect achieved by McEwan's quiet, precise and sensuous touch is that of magic realism - a transfiguration of the ordinary that has far stronger retinal and visceral impact than the flabby surrealism of so many experimental novels." - New York Review of Books It is difficult to fault the writing or the construction of this eerie fable." - Sunday Times "Marvellously creates the atmosphere of youngsters given that instant adulthood they all crave, where the ordinary takes on a mysterious glow and the extraordinary seems rather commonplace. His account of deprivation and survival is marvellously sure, and the imaginative alignment of his story is exactly right." - Tom Paulin
"A superb achievement: his prose has instant, lucid beauty and his narrative voice has a perfect poise and certainty.
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