Saturday
Ian McEwan
'Dazzling... Profound and urgent' Observer
'A book of great maturity, beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness and all forms of violence... Everyone should read Saturday' Financial Times
Saturday, February 15, 2003.
Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, stands at his bedroom window before dawn and watches a plane - ablaze with fire like a meteor - arcing across the London sky. Over the course of the following day, unease gathers about Perowne, as he moves amongst hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors in the post-9/11 streets.
A minor car accident brings him into confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive man, who to Perowne's professional eye appears to be profoundly unwell. But it is not until Baxter makes a sudden appearance at the Perowne family home that Henry's earlier fears seem about to be realised...
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About Ian McEwan
Reviews for Saturday
Sunday Times
It's the good writing and the truthful and convincing way of rendering consciousness that makes Saturday so engrossing
Colm Toibin
Richly laden. McEwan pulls out all the stops. A rich book, sensuous and thoughtful. McEwan has found in Saturday the right form to showcase his dazzling talents
Sunday Telegraph
An exemplary novel... It is undoubtedly McEwan's best
Mail on Sunday
He remains at the top of his game - assured, accomplished and ambitious
Daily Telegraph
A book of great moral maturity, beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness and all forms of violence... Everyone should read Saturday... Artistically, morally and politically, he excels
The Times
Fabulous
The Guardian
Saturday is wonderfully involving and affecting on every page. Everybody with any interest in contemporary literature will want to read it at once
Evening Standard
A masterpiece of suspense and contemporary reflection
The Word
A book of great maturity, beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness and all forms of violence... Everyone should read Saturday
Financial Times