Ian McEwan is an award-winning English author. His most recent novel is Nutshell.
Trudy left her husband, John, making him leave the dilapidated but priceless family home in London. John is a poet, a romantic dreamer that Trudy once loved madly. Now she loves Claude, John’s banal, boring brother. But taking Trudy from John isn’t enough for Claude: he wants John’s life as well.
There’s just one problem, the witness to their plan. The nine-month-old resident of Trudy’s womb, her son with John.
Nutshell is written from the most interesting perspective I’ve ever read: that of an unborn—but very aware—baby. Trudy and Claude are unlikeable characters, but the baby is fascinating. That viewpoint alone makes this book worth reading, but the book is very well-written, and will keep the reader guessing until the end.
(Galley provided by Doubleday via NetGalley.)
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