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The Cement Garden

The Cement Garden

by Ian McEwan

Publisher Jonathan Cape

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About the book

In the arid summer heat, four children Jack, Julie, Sue and Tom find themselves abruptly orphaned. All the routines of childhood are cast aside as the children adapt to a now parentless world. Alone in the house together, the childrens lives twist into something unrecognisable as the outside begins to bear down on them.

About the Author

Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan is an English novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and the Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 in its list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture".


McEwan began his career writing sparse, Gothic short stories. His first two novels, The Cement Garden and The Comfort of Strangers, earned him the nickname "Ian Macabre". These were followed by three novels of some success in the 1980s and early 1990s.


His novel Enduring Love was adapted into a film of the same name. He won the Man Booker Prize with Amsterdam. His following novel, Atonement, garnered acclaim and was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. His later novels have included The Children Act, Nutshell and Machines Like Me.

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  • Book Condition & Notes

    Fine first edition with some slight bruising to the top and the bottom of the spine. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket with some slight bumping along the top edge of the back cover.

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