TY - BOOK AU - McEwan,Ian TI - The child in time SN - 0099755017 (pbk) : U1 - 823.914 PY - 1997/// CY - London PB - Vintage KW - Missing children KW - Fiction N1 - Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 1987; Formerly CIP N2 - On a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children's books, turns his back momentarily. When he looks around again, his child is gone. In a single moment, everything is changed. The kidnapping has a devastating effect on Stephen's life and marriage. Memories and the present become inseparable - as Stephen gets lost in daydreams of the past - and time bends back on itself, dragging Stephen's own childhood back into the present ER -