
Ian McEwan
Full Disclosure with James O'Brien
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Doppl Gange
i often have a consciousness of the life i might have led if i hadn't been adopted by mam and dad, right? It wouldn't have been as good, you know, as a single mother pregnant at 15 that roral island. So having given him bits of my childhood and boarding school and so on, i then entirely invented his adult existencewe when youa found out you had a brother quite late in life. Does that play into the dopple gange? Well, it does. The novel is a lot about the role of chance in our lives, of pure contingency em I often think, ett, a biologist friend said to me recently, if your
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