Oh Ian McEwan. You will forever be known as the author who gave the February edition of the book group, the book so commonly referred to as “The Child Rape Book”, which I still maintain is a bit of a misnomer since only three of the eight stories deal with children being raped.

Sure, you might say in most collections of short stories rarely would even a single story broach the topic of raping children – but no, not here. (Many a childs’ first love is clearly rape.)

Anyway, I surely enjoyed this book, as did most of the group, even if it was a bit … sick, twisted, haunting, what have you.