Book description
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 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.
Ian McEwan has written two collections of short stories and twelve
novels. He has also written several film scripts, including The
Imitation Game,The Ploughman's Lunch, Sour Sweet, The Good Son and The
Innocent.
