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Stephen Lewis, an effective author of youngsters' books, is confronted by the impossible: his only child, three-year-old Kate, is grabbed from him in a store. In one single scary instant that replays itself through the years that follow, Stephen knows his daughter is gone.With remarkable perception and pain, Booker Prize–winning writer Ian McEwan takes us in to the dark place of the relationship ruined by the increasing loss of a young child. Kateis lack models Stephen and his girlfriend, Julie, on diverging pathways because they each challenge with a suffering that just appears to heighten with the passing of time. Enthusiastic and elegant, the book proves in a scene of desire and love that provides full control to the writer's exceptional items.