Rediscover the classic novel of love, violence and obsessions from Booker prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan.

Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows no bounds. Away on a holiday together in a nameless city, they get lost one evening in a labyrinth of streets and canals. They happen upon Robert, a stranger with a dark history, who takes them to a bar and ushers them down into a subterranean land of violence and obsession.

'Haunting and compelling' The Times

'No reader will begin The Comfort of Strangers and fail to finish it; a black magician is at work' New York Times

Re-jacketed in stunning new series style, The Comfort of Strangers is the second novel from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling Ian McEwan.

About the Author
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.

Reviews
Haunting and compelling * The Times *
No reader will begin The Comfort of Strangers and fail to finish it; a black magician is at work * New York Times *
This compelling, driven novel explores what it might be like to lose yourself forever * Guardian *
His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing * The Times *
McEwan, that master of the taciturn macabre, so organises his narrative that, without insisting anything, every turn and glimpse is another tightening of the noose * Observer *



Book Information
ISBN 9780099754916
Author Ian McEwan
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint Vintage
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 147g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 11mm