![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In many ways, his deeply personal - and somewhat selfish - fears echo that of the country’s citizens at large who are determined to stop the Government heading into a war that no-one wants. These dual events turn out to be thwarted catastrophes, but there’s an air of menace that permeates Perowne’s thoughts and deeds throughout the day. Perowne’s normal Saturday - playing squash with a colleague, watching his son’s band rehearsal, shopping for food and then preparing a lavish family meal in preparation for his daughter’s arrival home after a stint away - gets slightly turned on its head when, first, in the early hours of the morning, he stands at his bedroom window and sees a burning aeroplane arc across the sky towards Heathrow Airport, and second, when he is involved in a very minor car accident that turns into a potentially life-threatening situation. But the protest is a mere backdrop to a more deeply personal story, that of a day-in-the-life of a well-established and highly successful neurosurgeon, Henry Perowne, whose comfortable existence is rocked by a string of unforeseen events. ![]() It was the biggest ever demonstration witnessed in the UK.Īs someone who took part in the Stop the War march, I was keen to read Saturday by Ian McEwan because it is famously set in London on that very day. On Saturday Februalmost a million people took to the streets of London to protest against the impending war in Iraq. Fiction – paperback Vintage 282 pages 2005. ![]()
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