The Cement Garden (Vintage Blue) (Vintage International) (Camden S.)

by Ian McEwan

In the arid summer heat, four children – Jack, Julie, Sue and Tom – find themselves abruptly orphaned. All the routines of childhood are cast aside as the children adapt to a now parentless world. Alone in the house together, the children’s lives twist into something unrecognisable as the outside begins to bear down on them.

• ISBN10: 1409090051
• ISBN13: 9781409090052
• Publish Date: 11 March 2010 (first published 1 January 1978)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Imprint: Vintage Digital
• Format: eBook (EPUB)
• Pages: 160
• Language: English

Reviews

[clementine]

I almost wish I hadn't read this book. I don't think I've ever felt so uneasy about a book in my life. It's just deeply disturbing and sickening and disgusting and awful. If I can attempt to get past that, though, it's good. I mean, it's well-written. I think the shock value carries it, though.

(Also, holla, 100th book of 2012!)

[Stephanie]

What did I just read?