This week, I have been mostly reading: Enduring Love by Ian McEwan

Beginning with the tragic death of an unknown man in a ballooning accident, Enduring Love captures the spiralling events which proceed this, following Joe as he is led astray from his love, Clarissa, by a mentally deranged stalker Parry. In response to Parry’s unwelcome love towards him, Joe becomes obsessed with his antagonist and is increasingly incensed as the people around his fail to recognise the deep threat that Parry poses to his life. Enduring love explores how tragedy can connect, us, shape us and change our lives irrevocably. McEwan’s prose is thought provoking, involving and intelligent, with metafictional reference to the nature of narrative and how we understand and interpret the world around us; defiantly one of the best novels I have read in a long time.

Now…what to read next?