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A review by faintgirl
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
1.0
My word...what a bunch of tripe. I don't know what McEwan was thinking for this one. The main story starts off alright, with some real emotion around the loss of a child. But then he interweaves this weird story about a politician that starts acting like a kid and a trite story about the main character's parents just after the war...eurgh.
I think the thing that annoys me the most is that all McEwan's characters are so insanely privileged that they all just think too much. If Mr Writer (he's got working class roots don't you know?) had to worry about putting dinner on the table rather than missing his lessons in Arabic from his testy neighbour than perhaps we'd have a better novel. So much of this feels false. And the ending...well the ending was one of the worst I've read in the last decade. Poor show McEwan, poor show.
I think the thing that annoys me the most is that all McEwan's characters are so insanely privileged that they all just think too much. If Mr Writer (he's got working class roots don't you know?) had to worry about putting dinner on the table rather than missing his lessons in Arabic from his testy neighbour than perhaps we'd have a better novel. So much of this feels false. And the ending...well the ending was one of the worst I've read in the last decade. Poor show McEwan, poor show.