Joe and 4 other men race to help the pilot to secure the balloon, which has a young boy in it but a freak gust of wind carries it away and one of the rescuers dies.

When Clarissa returns to the UK from a 7-week sabbatical, they decide to celebrate by going for a picnic in the Cotswolds but just as they are settling down to eat, a hot air balloon gets into difficulties in a nearby field. I earn commission on any purchases made through these links.Ĥ0-something science writer Joe Rose lives with his long-term partner, Clarissa Mellon (a professor of English literature who specialises in Keats) in a flat in Maida Vale. You can order Enduring Love by Ian McEwan from Amazon UK, Waterstone’s or UK. “He creates an opening that is unforgettable … McEwan does a superb job of making us believe what seems so unlikely, and that is the book’s greatest power.” His technique is unparalleled like the smiler with the knife, he finally slips it to the reader with exquisite smoothness.” “McEwan’s latest, and possibly finest … his trademarks are in full force, combining stomach-pit dread and almost unbearable pathos. “McEwan’s exploration of his characters’ lives and secret emotions is a virtuoso display of fictional subtlety and intelligence.” “He is the maestro at creating suspense the particular, sickening, see-sawing kind that demands a kind of physical courage from the reader to continue reading.” “Taut with narrative excitements and suspense … a novel of rich diversity that triumphantly integrates imagination and intelligence, rationality and emotional alertness.”

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