Journal Entry 1 by seethroughfaith from Turku, Varsinais-Suomi Finland on Saturday, April 05, 2008

Ian McEwan is a critically acclaimed author of short stories and novels for adults, as well as The Daydreamer,a children's novelHis 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 and Saturday.


The Daydreamer takes the reader out of reality and into the dream world of 10 year old Peter Fortune.

This is the slim vintage publication- bought in Stockmann's Crazy Days for 4.90€ 

Journal Entry 2 by seethroughfaith at Turku, Varsinais-Suomi Finland on Tuesday, December 21, 2010

moving this up the pile 

Journal Entry 3 by seethroughfaith at Turku, Varsinais-Suomi Finland on Wednesday, December 29, 2010

As soon as I started reading this I realised that I had already read (at least the beginning) of this book before. It's very well written and what Ian McEwan says about wanting "to write a book for adults about being a child in a language that children could understand" is good. He does that very well.

my favourite chapter on the re-read is The Cat - it works so well :) 

Journal Entry 4 by seethroughfaith at Turku, Varsinais-Suomi Finland on Monday, January 03, 2011

Excellent read