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2000s: A couple’s daughter goes missing from a supermarket
The Child in Time
What you need to know before your trail
On a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children’s books, turns his back momentarily. When he looks around again, his child is gone. In a single moment, everything is changed. The kidnapping has a devastating effect on Stephen’s life and marriage. Memories and the present become inseparable – as Stephen gets lost in daydreams of the past – and time bends back on itself, dragging Stephen’s own childhood back into the present
Locations
Reset- England - London
- A: Vauxhall Bridge
- B: Millbank
- C: Whitehall
- D: Eaton Square
- E: South London
Travel Guide
London
The locations in this novel aren’t important – what is important is the landscape of life following the abduction of a child.
What happens when your child goes missing from a supermarket, when your friend decides to give up the rat race and go and live off the grid so to speak.
What do you remember from your own childhood and what would you see and feel if you could go back?
This novel is about the level of regret over the loss of childhood, no matter how that childhood is lost. It’s a place in the past that can’t be revisited no matter how hard you try.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Child In Time
Destination: London Author/Guide: Ian McEwan
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