all set for 9pm - and as usual a few possible questions to get us 'off the ground' (excuse me - totally intentional pun) on Enduring Love...like:
- did Ian McEwan keep you guessing to the end about Joe's sanity?
- is Joe complicit in relationship with Jed?
- is love about endurance, about holding on?

we might talk about these things...or we might just chat about whatever bobs-up :) see you soon - J xxx

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Hey all,
Don't forget it's Discussion Night tonight at 9 -
See you all later!
Justine

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How's it going? Have you finished 'Enduring Love' yet? I haven't quite - but I've found it a gripping read so far. I find Ian McEwan style very easy to get into. He really manages to make you feel like your inside Joe's head. McEwan also manages to make the extraordinary seem very believable.
Share your thoughts anytime by clicking on the comments button below.

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At 59, Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most distinguished writers.
He has won the Booker prize, The Somerset Maugham Award for a first book and the Whitbread Prize for Fiction for The Child in Time.

Born in 1948 in Aldershot, Surrey, he spent his childhood in Singapore and North Africa where his father - a soldier - was posted.
After studying English Literature at the University of Sussex, graduating in 1970, he undertook an MA degree at the University of East Anglia. One of his teachers was the novelist Malcolm Bradbury on the now famous creative writing course he set up at East Anglia.

The shocking has always had a role in McEwan's literature - the abduction of a child in The Child in Time, deviant sexual practises in The Comfort of Strangers, a fatal fall from a helium balloon in Enduring Love.

The novel tells the story of a scientist turned journalist whose world is turned upside down when he becomes the object of obsession of a stalker.

McEwan made up a medical condition for the stalker and wrote a spoof article from a psychiatric journal explaining the illness and included it in the book. His description of De Clerambault's Syndrome fooled reviewers and psychiatrists alike.

If you would like to find out more about Ian McEwan and his thoughts on writing Enduring Love, go to http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/readersgroup/qanda0412.htm where you will find a great Q&A by him.

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