The Child in Time
Book • 1997
The Child in Time follows Stephen Lewis, a successful children's book author, whose life is shattered when his three-year-old daughter Kate is abducted in a supermarket.
The novel explores how this tragedy devastates Stephen's marriage and his relationship with his wife Julie, as they grieve their loss in different ways.
Through magical realism and fluid treatment of time, McEwan examines themes of grief, loss, and the relative nature of time itself, while weaving in surreal sequences and the parallel story of Stephen's friend Charles Darke, a government minister who retreats into a child-like existence.
The novel explores how this tragedy devastates Stephen's marriage and his relationship with his wife Julie, as they grieve their loss in different ways.
Through magical realism and fluid treatment of time, McEwan examines themes of grief, loss, and the relative nature of time itself, while weaving in surreal sequences and the parallel story of Stephen's friend Charles Darke, a government minister who retreats into a child-like existence.
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