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

Item: The Cement Garden
Rating: 3.00
Author: clementine

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.

Reviewed by clementine on Dec 31, 2012

3 of 5 stars

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!)

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