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Trudy has cheated on her husband, John. She still lives in his home, an expensive but run-down London house, but John is not there. Instead, his brother, the incredibly banal Claude, visits and conspires with Trudy. And their plot has a witness: the inquisitive nine-and-a-half-month-old inhabitant of Trudy's womb.

Ian McEwan, winner of the Booker Prize for his novel Amsterdam and author of Atonement, which received an Oscar-winning film adaptation, retells the immortal tragedy from a never-before-seen perspective.