In Between The Sheets

“McEwan proves himself to be an acute psychologist of the ordinary mind.” — The New York Times Book Review 

A two-timing pornographer becomes an unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. A jaded millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress and plunges into a hell of jealousy and despair. And in the course of a weekend with his teenage daughter, a guilt-ridden father discovers the depths of his own blundering innocence. At once chilling and beguiling, and written in prose of lacerating beauty, In Between The Sheets is a tour de force by one of England’s most acclaimed practitioners of literary unease. 

“A writer in full control of his materials… In [his] short stories, the effect achieved by McEwan’s quiet, precise and sensual touch is that of magic realism — a transfiguration of the ordinary that has a … strong visceral impact.” —  Robert Towers, The New York Review of Books