Solar

Re-jacketed in stunning new series style, Solar is an engrossing, satirical and very funny novel about climate change by the Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling Ian McEwanMichael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different- his wife is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. When Beard's professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster.

“Savagely funny ... Enormously entertaining”

Savagely funny... Enormously entertaining Sunday Times
A satirical masterpiece...it will come to be regarded as a classic Daily Telegraph
A stunningly accomplished work, possibly his best yet Financial Times
McEwan has succeeded in producing a novel that is both profoundly serious and hilariously funny Mail on Sunday
Vivacious and sprawling, a beautifully and compellingly written novel The Times

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.

Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction 'A stunningly accomplished work, possibly his best yet...both funny and serious, light and dark, morally engaged and ironically detached' Financial Times Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: his wife is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. When Beard's professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster. Ranging from the Arctic Circle to the deserts of New Mexico, this is a story of one man's greed and self-deception; a darkly satirical novel showing human frailty struggling with the most pressing and complex problem of our time. ' Solar is, by some distance, the funniest book McEwan has ever written. It continues a fine tradition of English drollery, pioneered by Kingsley Amis, in which the high ideals of the mind are constantly sabotaged by the low instincts of the body: the academic with his trousers down' Anthony Quinn, Mail on Sunday 'McEwan attempts the difficult trick of blending raucous comedy with science and politics. I think he pulls it off magnificently' Nick Cohen, Observer

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