Called “the supreme novelist of his generation” (The Sunday Times), Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of 19 novels, including the Booker Prize-winning Amsterdam, The Child in Time, Saturday and Lessons, as well as Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach, all of which have received major screen adaptations.
Speaking with Simon Wilson in this special interview live from his home in the UK, he discusses his landmark new novel What We Can Know, which envisions a 2119 submerged by rising seas, and a society living with the consequence of climate inaction.
Literary critic Johanna Thomas-Corr described it as “a postapocalyptic campus novel … AS Byatt’s Possession crossed with Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Dark academia meets the big ideas novel” and McEwan’s “most richly layered work”.
A conversation not to miss.
Supported by Platinum Patron Kevin Ramsbottom-Isherwood.
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