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Saturday ian mcewan sparknotes7/6/2023 ![]() Devastated and mortified by his own inattentiveness, Stephen returns home to deliver the tragic news to Julie. Joined by other shoppers and eventually the police, Stephen canvasses the area, but it is as if Kate has simply vanished. He searches up, down, and around the block but to no avail. She is not in the store, nor in the parking lot, nor in the loading area of the grocery store. A sense of panic builds, as his efforts to find Kate prove fruitless. ![]() ![]() Initially, Stephen remains calm, believing that his daughter could not have strayed far. However, when he turns back, Kate is nowhere to be seen. In the checkout line, Stephen removes her from the cart and looks away for just a few moments as he unloads the groceries. While they shop, Kate rides around in the basket of the shopping cart. ![]() He lets Julie sleep in and prepares to take his three-year-old daughter, Kate, to the market. ![]() A self-described “accidental” children’s book author, Stephen wakes up next to his wife, Julie, one Saturday morning in their London apartment. In 2017, the novel was adapted into a BBC television film starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kelly Macdonald. It won the Whitbread Novel Award given to exemplary works of literature by English and Irish authors. One of English author Ian McEwan’s most beloved works, The Child in Time (1987) tells the story of a children’s book author whose three-year-old daughter is kidnapped. ![]()
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