I couldn’t help feeling that, since Atonement and Saturday, Ian McEwan had rather taken his foot off the pedal — On Chesil Beach seemed slight, Nutshell gimmicky and overworked, and even The Children Act was on the thin side. His new, gripping, beautifully written and constructed, disturbing, and provocative novel is none of those things, and is a thrilling read.
The action takes place in Britain in the 1980s, but not the 1980s that we knew. The technological revolution has already arrived. Most cars are autonomous, high-speed trains run from London to Glasgow in …
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