The Daydreamer

From the inexhaustible imagination of Ian McEwana master of contemporary fiction and author of the Booker Prizewinning national bestseller Amsterdaman enchanting work of fiction that appeals equally to children and adults. First published in England as a childrens book, The Daydreamer marks a delightful foray by one of our greatest novelists into a new fictional domain. In these seven exquisitely interlinked episodes, the grownup protagonist Peter Fortune reveals the secret journeys, metamorphoses, and adventures of his childhood. Living somewhere between dream and reality, Peter experiences fantastical transformations: he swaps bodies with the wise old family cat exchanges existences with a cranky infant encounters a very bad doll who has come to life and is out for revenge and rummages through a kitchen drawer filled with useless objects to discover some notsouseless cream that actually makes people vanish. Finally, he wakes up as an elevenyearold inside a grownup body and embarks on the truly fantastic adventure of falling in love. Moving, dreamlike, and extraordinary, The Daydreamer marks yet another imaginative departure for Ian McEwan, and one that adds new breadth to his body of work.