Enduring Love
Author: Ian McEwan
Joe planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside to celebrate his lover’s return after 6 weeks in the States. The perfect day turns to nightmare however, when they are involved in freak ballooning accident in which a boy is saved but a man is killed. In itself, the accident would change the couple and the survivors’ lives, filling them with an uneasy com….Read More
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