The book that… …made me miss a train stop: Not so good at: Persistence, tennis second serve. Good at: squash and making roast potatoes.
Dislikes: passport control and immigration lines, the “happy birthday” song. Likes: walking, chamber music and blues, holidays. Many of his works have been adapted to film (he has written some of the screenplays), including the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Atonement (original title: An Atonement), which starred Keira Knightley and Saoirse Ronan and won the Best Film BAFTA and Best Original Score Oscar of seven Oscar nominations The Children Act (starring Emma Thompson) and On Chesil Beach (starring Ronan).įrom a military family, the Hampshire-born, Cotswolds- and London-based author moved around in his youth including spells in Singapore and Libya, has been awarded a CBE and the Bodeleian Medal, was once mistaken for a CIA agent in Grenada, and doesn’t finish a TV series. Nominated six times for the Man Booker Prize, the author won for Amsterdam. The global pandemic made sure of that, and the result is his 17th novel, Lessons (Knopf), which chronicles a man’s lifetime spanning historical events including the Berlin Wall and Brexit, Chernobyl and COVID-19. After a travel-packed 2019, Ian McEwan had planned to stay put in London to write in 2020.
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