5/12/2023 0 Comments The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan![]() Given that the book was initially published in 1978, I can understand the controversy surrounding it. ![]() Ian McEwan, The Cement Garden A Council Blockade Perhaps she had learned something at school and was ashamed of herself for letting us do things to her. The games ceased not long after Father died, although it was not his death that brought them to an end. ![]() My sisters and I no longer played together on Julie’s bed. However, this creates a tentative love-triangle between Jack, Julie, and her new boyfriend, Derek. Jack develops an obsessive crush on his older sister Julie, looking to recreate the parents’ roles over their siblings with the children providing for themselves. His mother struggles to make ends meet, unable to look after her children properly Jack, Julie, Sue and young Tom.Īs their mother becomes ill and eventually dies, they must decide to either call the police and almost certainly be taken into care, or bury the body to hide the evidence. ![]() Jack, aged 14, aims to follow his recently deceased father’s steps by ruling over the family. ![]() With flirtations of death, romances of incest, and the brutality of exploitation, Ian McEwan goes all out to deliver a stomach-churning experience you won’t forget in a hurry. ![]()
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