A scholar in the twenty-second century investigates a missing poem and the life of its author.
Ian McEwan uses literary research to ask how much can be known about another person. Choose this for readers who enjoy an intellectual mystery in which the gaps matter as much as the discoveries. The distance in time turns interpretation into a problem of surviving evidence, imagination and misplaced certainty.
WHO IS IT FOR?
For readers drawn to character, language and the tensions within ordinary lives.
