Amsterdam

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Two old friends - Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday - meet at the funeral of gorgeous, witty Molly Lane.Both men had been Molly's lovers years before their dazzling success; Clive is Britain's most eminent modern composer and Vernon is the editor of the respected broadsheet, The Judge. In the weeks that follow, Clive and Vernon's lives become bound together in ways neither could have imagined. Two dubious moral decisions and a pact made in extremis lead them both to the heart of Amsterdam, and to their doom.'The novel twists and turns unexpectedly...McEwan has a master's control over his instrument' Sunday Times

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Two old friends - Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday - meet at the funeral of gorgeous, witty Molly Lane.Both men had been Molly's lovers years before their dazzling success; Clive is Britain's most eminent modern composer and Vernon is the editor of the respected broadsheet, The Judge. In the weeks that follow, Clive and Vernon's lives become bound together in ways neither could have imagined. Two dubious moral decisions and a pact made in extremis lead them both to the heart of Amsterdam, and to their doom.'The novel twists and turns unexpectedly...McEwan has a master's control over his instrument' Sunday Times

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• booker prize-winner
• enduring love
• atonement
• composer
• lake district
• newspaper editor
• morality tale
• jeu d'espirit
• double murder
• keira knightly
• On Chesil Beach
• Nutshell
• Man Booker Prize
• in extremis
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• Booker Prize Winner 1998
• Bodley Medal Winner
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• keira knightley saoirse ronan benedict cumberbatch emma thompson stanley tucci
• Golden Man Booker Prize Winner 1998
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• sense ending barnes julian finkler question jacobson howard
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• keneally thomas midnight children rushdie
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• lincoln bardo saunders sellout beatty james brief