Enduring Love: A Novel

A sad, chilling, precise exploration of deranged love. -- starred, "Kirkus Reviews"
Will keep readers hooked. -- starred, "Publishers Weekly"
The calm, organized life of Joe Rose is shattered one day when Joe takes part in a rescue effort to save a child in a runaway ballon gondola. The day ends with a tragedy that takes only seconds, but will reverberate in the lives of those present. Ian McEwan spins a tale of life intruded upon -- and discovers how an ordinary man can be driven to the brink of madness by another's delusions.