The Child in Time

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The Child in Time opens with a harrowing event. Stephen Lewis,a successful author of children's books, takes his three-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From there, Lewis spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and time itself.

Critics Review

Spooky...a wonderful novel
Observer
The Child in Time is an extraordinary achievement
Guardian
It is marvellously written, moving, serious, readable... If you want to be appalled, refreshed, exhilarated, enlivened - read it
Sunday Times
His masterpiece
Christopher Hitchens
Artistically, morally, and politically, he excels
The Times
His best work to date
Irish Times
This book describes the panic of losing a child… The engulfing destructive pain is brilliantly explored
Week
The Child in Time is a dense, atmospheric book as much concerned with philosophical debate as with plot.
Daily Telegraph
The Child in Time is an extraordinary achievement in which form and content, theory and practice, are so expertly and inseparably interwoven that the novel becomes an advertisement for, or proof of, its own thesis.
Guardian

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