Ian McEwan is a modern classic of British literature, marked by many prestigious awards, including the Booker Prize and the Somerset Maugham Prize. Based on McEwan's novels, 8 films have been shot, which are still widely heard.

The novel "A Child in Time" plunges into family history as into a pool from which the reader is unlikely to be able to get out immediately. The three-year-old daughter of children's writer Stephen Lewis, Kate, disappears while she and her father were in the supermarket. Her whereabouts are unknown. The incident seriously affects Stephen's self-awareness and his relationship with his wife. The drawn-out narrative, stretching and tearing apart the temporal structure, reveals new details and almost forgotten feelings of the characters, focuses on the ability of the text to bring back the old days and thereby create a semblance of eternity, which changes under the onslaught of reason. High-class literature capable of explaining to a person the essence of his own soul, resorting to the properties of memory.