Tag: The Cement Garden

  • Ian McEwan: ‘I despise lying, ideological Brexiters’

    Ian McEwan: ‘I despise lying, ideological Brexiters’

    The Booker-winning author on Angela Merkel, tennis and his tribute to The Go-BetweenBorn in Hampshire, Ian McEwan, 70, took a creative writing Ma at the University of East Anglia. In 1976, his first collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham award; his first novel, The Cement Garden, was published two…