Nutshell
By Ian McEwan
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By Ian McEwan
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Nutshell is a Hamlet adaptation done in a totally different way — told with the titular character still inside the womb! What happens when a rather sentient baby experiences the set-up of the famous play. It’s clever, it’s inventive and it’s totally McEwan, with musings on a wide variety of subjects and complicated looks at relationships — familial and other.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “suspenseful, dazzlingly clever and gravely profound” (The Washington Post) novel that brilliantly recasts Shakespeare and lends new weight to the age-old question of Hamlet's hesitation, from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement.
Trudy has been unfaithful to her husband, John. What’s more, she has kicked him out of their marital home, a valuable old London town house, and in his place is his own brother, the profoundly banal Claude. The illicit...
Trudy has been unfaithful to her husband, John. What’s more, she has kicked him out of their marital home, a valuable old London town house, and in his place is his own brother, the profoundly banal Claude. The illicit...



