A National and International Bestseller
Winner of the 1998 Booker Prize for Fiction
A Globe and Mail Notable Book of 1998
On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence—Clive as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon as editor of the broadsheet The Judge. But gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers too, notably Julian Garmony, the Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger poised to be the next prime minister. What happens in the aftermath of her funeral has a profound and shocking effect on all her lovers' lives, and erupts in the most purely enjoyable fiction Ian McEwan has ever written.
- ISBN10 0676972179
- ISBN13 9780676972177
- Publish Date 25 May 1999 (first published 27 August 1998)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Vintage Canada
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 192
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/isbn/9780676972177