The Child in Time (1987) is a novel by Ian McEwan. It won the Whitbread Novel Award for that year. It concerns Stephen, an author of children's books, and his wife two years after the kidnapping of their three-year-old...
Exhibitions The child in time Pictures of Innocence: Portraits of Children from Hogarth to Lawrence The Holburne Museum of Art, Great Pulteney Street, Bath, until 19 June This is the fourth of the Holburne's recent exhibitions devoted to 18th-century British...
TIPPETT A Child of our Time * Colin Davis, cond; Ute Selbig (sop); Nora Gubisch (mez); Jerry Hadley (ten); Robert Holl (bs); Berlin PO; Staatskapelle Dresden; Dresden S Ch * PROFIL 7052 (65:19) Live: Dresden 2003 In the early 1930s, Michael Tippett worked...
In the following essay, Slay examines the connections between children and the passage of time in The Child in Time, drawing attention to parallels between the loss of the protagonist's child and the theme of time as the destroyer of youth and, alternately, as a mode of recovery and rejuvenation.
In the following essay, Edwards considers McEwan's evocation of Romantic and Modernist conceptions of time, experience, and natural order in The Child in Time, especially as such motifs underscore the novel's literary critique of British social and political reality.
