PositiveToronto Star (CAN)Clever ... Casts a rueful eye ... The novel is epic in scope, straddling a century without losing McEwan’s trademark attention to the fine grain of our emotional lives. The narrative is compelling and often moving. But McEwan makes a slightly goofy prophet ... A timely and typically thoughtful addition to McEwan’s impressive corpus. If it finds enough readers, perhaps we can avoid the future it depicts.
