Each plant had been savagely cut back to within a few inches of the frozen ground. They wandered into an arrangement of oval rose beds, marked by a sign, 'The Garden Of Remembrance'. As the book's two protagonists Clive Linley, a composer, and Vernon Halliday, a newspaper editor, walk along talking in that awful desultory yet stilted fashion that is the way of funerals this is where you find them: Here at Bookbag, we remain sadly unengaged by a cold book that, while we appreciated it, failed to move us.Ī Booker Prizewinner, Amsterdam opens in typical McEwan fashion, at a funeral, and as usual, you're immediately struck by the accurate and unpleasant observation that is a particular skill of his. Indeed, the Booker judges felt that it delivered a great deal. And why Amsterdam? What happens there to Clive and Vernon is the most delicious shock in a novel brimming with surprises.Summary: Well-written, wonderfully observed, full of dark wit, a contemporary issue - Amsterdam promises a great deal. A contemporary morality tale that is as profound as it is witty, this short novel is perhaps the most purely enjoyable fiction Ian McEwan has ever written. Each will make a disastrous moral decision, their friendship will be tested to its limits, and Julian Garmony will be fighting for his political life. In the days that follow Molly's funeral, Clive and Vernon will make a pact with consequences neither has foreseen. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers, too, notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next prime minister. Clive is Britain's most successful modern composer Vernon is editor of the quality broadsheet The Judge. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence. On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane.
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