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Cement Garden

Book • 1980
The Cement Garden is a novel by Ian McEwan, published in 1978.

It tells the story of four siblings who are left to their own devices after their mother dies.

They decide to bury her in the basement and cover her with cement, and they try to keep their mother's death a secret from the outside world.

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as one of Ian McEwan's books during his Ian Macabre period, featuring weird sex, incest and murder.
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