Book: Enduring Love
Author: Ian McEwan
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Original Book Review
Enduring Love
‘My love for you is hard and fierce, it won’t take no for an answer, and it’s moving steadily towards you, coming to claim you and deliver you.’ – Enduring Love
On a windy spring day in the Chilterns, the calm, organized life of science writer Joe Rose is shattered when he witnesses a tragic accident: a hot-air balloon with a boy trapped in its basket is being tossed by the wind, and in the attempt to save the child, a man is killed. A stranger named Jed Parry joins Rose in helping to bring the balloon to safety. But unknown to Rose, something passes between Parry and himself on that day–something that gives birth to an obsession in Parry so powerful that it will test the limits of Rose’s beloved rationalism, threaten the love of his wife, Clarissa, and drive him to the brink of murder and madness. Brilliant and compassionate, this is a novel of love, faith, and suspense, and of how life can change in an instant.
I read this book when it was first published in 1997. It was the first book I have read of Ian McEwan, and I was hooked after that. I read almost all of his books, including the novellas he wrote before Enduring Love. My favourite is Amsterdam and Saturday.
This is due for a reread as you can imagine it was nearly 25 years since I read this, so I have forgotten what it was all about!!
Have you read any books of Ian McEwan. What do you think?
I chose the music Lacrimosa from Mozart’s Requiem, as this was the music played in piano at the movie “Atonement”, Ian McEwan’s novel that was adapted into a movie.
