Amsterdam

Winner of the 1998 Man Booker Prize

By: Ian McEwan

Paperback | 1 March 1999 | Edition Number 1

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'Easily his most enjoyable book-McEwan writes here with unobtrusive panache' David Profumo, Daily Telegraph

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 quality broadsheet, "The Judge". Gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers too, notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next prime minister.

In the days that follow Molly's funeral, Clive and Vernon will make a pact that will have consequences neither has foreseen. Each will make a disastrous moral decision, their friendship will be tested to its limits and Julian Garmony will be fighting for his political life. A contemporary morality tale that is as profound as it is witty, this short novel is perhaps the most purely enjoyable fiction Ian McEwan has ever written.

And why Amsterdam? What happens there to Clive and Vernon is the most delicious shock in a novel brimming with surprises.

About the Author

Ian McEwan has written two collections of short stories and ten novels. He has also written several film scripts, including The Imitation Game, The Ploughman's Lunch, Sour Sweet, The Good Son and The Innocent.
Industry Reviews
"A psychologically brilliant study of heartlessness" * Sunday Telegraph * "One of the finest writers alive" * Sunday Times * "Full of gusto, straightforward, and delivers blows to the gut...shocking" -- A. S. Byatt * Literary Review * "McEwan writes here with unobtrusive panache" * Daily Telegraph * "Amsterdam is brilliantly engineered and marvellously entertaining" * Evening Standard *

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