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- When McEwan turned eleven, he was sent away to a British boarding school while his parents remained abroad. McEwan believes that his parents lives were traumatized by their first, accidental pregnancy and that they distanced themselves from their other children to hide from the painful reality of their actions.
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Feb 15, 2009 · The act of giving away one child, McEwan believes, set in motion a perverse pattern. When Ian was eleven, his parents enrolled him at an English boarding school. “I was sent away,” he said.
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Jun 18, 2014 · McEwan believes that his parents lives were traumatized by their first, accidental pregnancy and that they distanced themselves from their other children to hide from the painful reality of their actions.
Apr 17, 2019 · As part of his research, McEwan listened in as parents discussed their children’s relationships to voice assistants such as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa. “I’m already feeling uncomfortable around these things, and it’s going to throw us back on to all kinds of self-examination, too,” he says.
McEwan was born in 1948 and spent part of his youth in Singapore and North Africa, where his father was stationed as a British Army officer. He finished his education at a boarding school in England, and went on to earn an undergraduate degree from the University of Sussex in 1970.
The first sentence of the novel expresses Jack's feelings of reluctant guilt towards his father's death: I did not kill my father, but I sometimes think that I helped him on his way. (p.9) McEwan thus catapults the reader directly into the tormented mental world of Jack.
Sep 7, 2022 · McEwan and his main character in Lessons, Roland Baines, were both born in 1948 and share a knotty family back story (more of which later). Both return from Libya to England aged 11 and are sent to a council-run boarding school in Suffolk. Woolverstone Hall School fed McEwan’s appetite for roaming.
Jan 9, 2006 · It is McEwan’s salute to his parents’ generation; his own father, who died shortly before the novel came out, has a walk-on role. In the novel’s third part there are wonderfully observed scenes of London at war, of the rubble in the streets, of the frantic bustle and the nagging fear, as Briony becomes a nurse and Robbie and Cecilia ...
