Enduring Love

By: Ian McEwan

Narrated by: David Threlfall

One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them - something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him to the brink of murder and madness.

Critic reviews

Utterly compelling

Hypnotically readable

Taut with narrative excitement and suspense

A plot so engrossing that it seems reckless to pick the book up in the evening if you plan to get any sleep that night

He is the maestro at creating suspense

McEwan's exploration of his characters' lives and secret emotions is a virtuoso display of fictional subtlety and intelligence

A virtuoso display

[An] exquisite and suspenseful novel

A page-turner, with a plot so engrossing that it seems reckless to pick the book up in the evening if you plan to get any sleep that night (A S Byatt)

Taut with narrative excitement and suspense...a novel of rich diversity that triumphantly integrates imagination and intelligence, rationality and emotional alertness

Absolutely thrilling!

This piece of art by Ian McEwan is one that shows his absolute dominance in narration and storytelling of modern literature.