Margalit's review
The Child in Time
by Ian McEwan
Margalit's review
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
Margalit's review
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This is the saddest book I've ever read. And I'm reread it about 20 times, and never fail to sob because it's just the most amazing story. A family suffers a horrible loss. Their only child is snatched in a supermarket, never to be seen again. The couple fall apart, and as they are suffering, so is England's political interest in the country's educational institutions. The juxtaposition between the government's difficulties and the couple's falling apart is painfully difficult to read.
