' The Story of His Life', The Observer, 23 January 2005: Review 5. ' The Conversion of Mr Macabre', The Sunday Times, 23 January 2005: Review 5. ' Deft Knife Twist of Literary Anxiety', Toronto Star, 22 January 2005: H13. ' Against the Flow', The Guardian, 22 January 2005: 9.įreeman, John. 'Absent Parents, an Angry Ex, and a Curious Obsession with Dead Bodies', Evening Standard, 17 January 2005: 23. 'Saturday', Kirkus Reviews, 15 January 2005.Ĭavendish, Lucy. ' Ian McEwan Hints at a Coming Novel', New York Times, 6 December 2004: E3. 'A Happy Man in Wartime', The Bookseller, 25 November 2004.Ĭowell, Alan. ' Ian McEwan, Finishing New Novel, Ponders World After Sept. (Novel in progress at the time.)Ĭaminada, Carlos. ' McEwan Takes Scalpel to Anxiety in New Novel', Reuters, 11 April 2004. ' Ian McEwan, Reinventing Himself Still',, 1 April 2004. Presented in recipe format with slight revisions by McEwan. Try your hand at preparing the dish featured in McEwan's best-selling novel Saturday. New York: Random House Large Print, 2005. But Baxter, a fidgety young man on the edge of violence, places Perowne's happy life under threat. ( From the publisher.Henry Perowne's Saturday (15 February 2003) swells with the celebration of life's many pleasures. To Perowne’s professional eye, something appears to be profoundly wrong with this young man, who in turn believes the surgeon has humiliated him - with savage consequences that will lead Henry Perowne to deploy all his skills to keep his family alive.

A minor accident in his car brings him into a confrontation with a small-time thug.

After an unusual sighting in the early morning sky, he makes his way to his regular squash game with his anaesthetist, trying to avoid the hundreds of thousands of marchers filling the streets of London, protesting against the war. On this particular Saturday morning, Perowne’s day moves through the ordinary to the extraordinary. There is an impending war against Iraq, and a general darkening and gathering pessimism since the New York and Washington attacks two years before. Outside the hospital, the world is not so easy or predictable. He is as at ease here as he is in the operating room. Henry wakes to the comfort of his large home in central London on this, his day off. Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children. Saturday is a masterful novel set within a single day in February 2003. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. From the pen of a master - the #1 bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Atonement - comes an astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it.

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