From the first few lines I knew I will love it. How cute were those lines, how cute was the whole fact that baby in the womb was telling you his story. So cute . I know it's only a book but it kind of made me look differently at my daughter and made me miss my pregnancy so much. Overall great book. Highly recommend!

I have enjoyed many of McEwan's works. They are all unique and very different form each other. This is no exception. As a midwife in my previous life i found the narration from the unborn absolutely fascinating. What a pulling point for the story!! As it is a fairly short novel i raced through it in a few hours on a dark winters day. The characters are very fleshed out and believable along with the plot. It is McEwan at his finest. Many thanks to the publishers for sending me a copy to review. I would very much recommend this novel to McEwan fans and all other readers of fiction.

I won't be the first to acknowledge McEwan's stroke of genius in writing from the unsuspectingly comical and interrogative perspective of an unborn child. Brilliantly contemporary retelling of the Hamlet story and further proof of the ingenuity of this world class author.

This is a quick read, fast-paced, perfectly written with a unique voice. Witty and deliciously dark. Absolutely loved it!

I was lucky enough to receive an advance copy of this book and devoured it within a few days! After reading that it was told from the perspective of an unborn child I knew I had to give it a go! The idea of having a foetus as a narrator was certainly intriguing but I wasn't sure how it would turn out. I'm glad to say that somehow McEwan pulled it off. The voice of the unborn baby is surprisingly intelligent and often witty and makes for an interesting and very different storyteller. His mother is having an affair with her brother-in-law and is planning to murder her husband (hence the shadow of Shakespeare's Hamlet). The unborn baby, as an unwilling spectator, hears the plot but does not have the power to intervene, causing a wonderful tension throughout the story which keeps you hooked from page to page. It's unlike any book I've ever read and because of that I would definitely recommend it!