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Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is an English novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 in its list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture".

McEwan began his career writing sparse, Gothic short stories. The Cement Garden (1978) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981), his first two novels, earned him the nickname "Ian Macabre". These were followed by three novels of some success in the 1980s and early 1990s. His novel Enduring Love (1997) was adapted into an eponymous film. He won the Man Booker Prize with Amsterdam (1998). His following novel, Atonement (2001), garnered acclaim and was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. This was followed by Saturday (2005), On Chesil Beach (2007), Solar (2010), Sweet Tooth (2012), The Children Act (2014), Nutshell (2016), and Machines Like Me (2019). He was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 2011.

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England i 1972. Serena Frome, den smukke datter af en anglikansk biskop, bliver rekrutteret til efterretningsvæsenet i sit sidste år på Cambridge.  Den kulturelle kolde krig er stadig i fuld gang, og landet er ved at gå op i sømmene på grund af strejker og terrorisme.  Serena sendes ud på en ”hemmelig mission”, der fører hende ind i litterære miljøer, hvor hun møder den lovende unge forfatter Tom Haley.  Først elsker hun hans noveller, senere bliver hun forelsket i forfatteren.  Kan hun bevare fiktionen om sit hemmelige liv? For at svare på dette spørgsmål må Serena bryde spionens første bud: Du må aldrig stole på nogen. McEwan imponerer med sin mesterlige fortællekunst i denne elegante og vittige historie om forræderi og intriger, kærlighed og den kunstige identitet.  
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