Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: she is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. When Beard’s professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster. Ranging from the Arctic Circle to the deserts of New Mexico, Solar is a serious and darkly satirical novel, showing human frailty struggling with the most pressing and complex problem of our time. A story of one man’s greed and self-deception, it is a profound and stylish new work from one of the world’s great writers.

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Which of these McEwan novels was recently made in to a film starring Kiera Knightly?

• Atonement
• On Chesil Beach
  
• Saturday

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1. Dan Says:
   March 22nd, 2010 at 11:23 am

   Really looking forward to reading this (even if I don’t win!)

2. Jan2009 Says:
   March 23rd, 2010 at 10:16 pm

   This looks like a really good read.

3. isobelw Says:
   March 24th, 2010 at 8:18 pm

   atonement was my favourite book of the past decade

4. anmelia Says:
   March 24th, 2010 at 10:08 pm

   Adore Atonement, watched movie in the cinema on the beach where it was filmed, the cinema was also used to shoot parts of it. It was a weird experience sitting where the soliders sat singing and watching the from their seats.
   Cried at Chesil Beach, laughed and winced at the Cement Garden.
   Loved Enduring love, am watching the film at the weekend to compare with the book.

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