At the heart of this extraordinary novel is the acute awareness of the details of our relationships, of life and of love, and the unforeseen violence that can threaten our peaceĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 11:01:03 Boxid IA40060413 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Ian McEwan has written a masterful novel that keeps you balanced on the edge of your seat as Perowne's happy safe world is unexpectedly shattered. On this particular Saturday morning, Perowne's day moves through the ordinary to the extraordinary: from an unusual sighting in the early morning sky to his usual squash game, and from trying to avoid the hundreds of thousands of war protestors filling the streets of London, to a seemingly minor car accident. There is an impending war against Iraq, and a general darkening and gathering pessimism since the New York and Washington attacks two years before and his children are now grown and making their way into this world as adults. Outside the hospital, the world is not so easy or predictable. He is almost as comfortable here as he is in the operating room. Henry wakes to the relative comfort of his home on this, his day off. Henry Perowne is a contented man-a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children, who are young adults.

Saturday is a novel set within a single day in February 2003.

Saturday by Ian McEwan