While there’s some climate change claptrap in this book which will probably date it (badly), Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know is a genuinely wise work of fiction that will make it ripe for revisiting over the next thirty or forty years. The story’s unconventional but winning structure makes the reader want to start over immediately upon reading the last page.
This book has also come out at just the right time. It’s an ideal autumnal read.
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 