Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: his wife is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. When Beard's professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099549024
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 245 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 19 mm
Savagely funny... Enormously entertaining - Sunday Times
A satirical masterpiece...it will come to be regarded as a classic - Daily Telegraph
A stunningly accomplished work, possibly his best yet - Financial Times
McEwan has succeeded in producing a novel that is both profoundly serious and hilariously funny - Mail on Sunday
Vivacious and sprawling, a beautifully and compellingly written novel - The Times
I was disappointed by this book as I have enjoyed other books by the author.
The long scientific parts bored me and I didn't really care what happened to the main character.
I plodded through to the bitter end, hoping it would get better. It was depressing - not a holiday read. I was hoping for something to make me laugh. The blurb made it sound good but I wouldn't bother to buy it -... More
I have just given up this one, and its very rare that I give up on a book!
Like someone else said, there is too much science. Its boring and I think its just there to fill pages in a very boring storyline.
The main...
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