Enduring Love

“The unputdownable book is an unswitchoffable listen.”
Express 19/12/98

“Give yourself just five minutes of Richard E Grant reading Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love, but make sure you have no pressing engagements for the next couple of hours... a subtle reading of an already great novel.”
Sue Gaisford, Independent on Sunday 9/5/99

The story of how an ordinary man can be driven to the brink of murder by another’s delusions, by the winner of the 1998 Booker Prize.

One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects,could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them – something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him to the brink of murder and madness