Chapter 3: Nutshell

Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She’s still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but John’s not here. Instead, she’s with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive nine-month-old resident of Trudy’s womb. Ian McEwan‘s shocking tale of treachery is likely to remind you of a modernized Shakespearean play and will leave you fascinated by how this master storyteller only reveals the narrative from the point of view of an unborn child.