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Amsterdam – Ian McEwan

On January 7, 2017December 31, 2016 By bookskepticIn Reviews7 Comments

The novel starts with a funeral of Molly Lane. Clive and Vernon, her former lovers, meet and chat about her husband George and another one of her lovers a right-wing Foreign Secretary Julian Garmony, who is about to challenge party leadership and become a prime minister. Clive and Vernon despise both the controlling and possessive …

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