![]() ![]() The father, who is very fond of gardening, decides that his work in the garden is too much of a strain for him, especially after he has a heart attack. ![]() The children are ashamed about this situation and are discouraged to bring friends home. ![]() Their home is isolated from the world because the area is being demolished, because it has to make room for a motorway. Other novels written by McEwan are Comfort Strangers and A child in Time.įour children, Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom live in a big but very old house. ![]() It is said to be a typical McEwan novel, having ingredients like frustration, fear, sex and violence. He wrote short stories such as First Love, Last Rites and Between the Sheets, which were published in well known magazines. Ian McEwan was born in England in 1948 and started his writing career in 1970. The children bury her in a trunk with some of the cement their father used during his project. They want to keep her death a secret otherwise they will have to go to a orphanage. This book is called The cement garden because the father of the children in this book covers their little garden with cement, but before he is finished he dies of a heart attack, and eventually their mother dies too. ![]()
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