Two old friends meet outside a crematorium on a chilly February day
paying last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley, Britain's most
successful modern composer and Vernon Halliday, editor of the quality
broadsheet The Judge, were Molly's lovers in the days before reaching
their current eminence. Gorgeous Molly had other lovers, including
Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next prime minister. Following Molly's funeral, Clive and Vernon will each make a disasterous moral decision, testing their friendship to the limits, and Julian Garmony will fight for his political life.
Amsterdam, a short novel, is a contemporary morality tale that is as profound as it is witty. It is perhaps the most purely enjoyable fiction Ian McEwan has ever written
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