The Child in Time

Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch

¿Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty¿ Benedict Cumberbatch

On a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children¿s books, turns his back momentarily. When he looks around again, his child is gone. In a single moment, everything is changed. The kidnapping has a devastating effect on Stephen¿s life and marriage. Memories and the present become inseparable ¿ as Stephen gets lost in daydreams of the past ¿ and time bends back on itself, dragging Stephen¿s own childhood back into the present.