Results tagged “Ian McEwan” from Liverpool Echo - First Rule of Book Club

I have a love hate relationship with Ian McEwan although now I struggle to remember where the 'hate' bit came from... I think it's because his books often end badly.

I've just finished Saturday though and I thought it was good. It has been widely criticised because it is Ian McEwan at his most 'wordy'... he manages to stretch the action from one day into a whole book... without so much of a whiff of Jack Bauer.

I was about halfway through when...

I never thought... the two of them...

One's a controversial yet hugely watchable chat show host with one too many flamboyant suits ... the other is, well, my mother, who volunteers at the local animal sanctuary.

Who would have expected it?

I'd spent five hours travelling from Liverpool all the way to my family home last weekend only to be greeted by something of a surprise... 

I remember when I finished Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach.

I burst into tears and looked at my other half, who was looking distinctly unimpressed.