Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most inventive and important contemporary writers. Also adapted as a film, his novel Enduring Love (1997) is a tale of obsession that has both troubled and enthralled readers around the world.

This guide to McEwan's haunting novel offers:

· an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Enduring Love

· a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present

· a selection of new critical essays on Enduring Love, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section

· cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism

· suggestions for further reading.

Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Enduring Love and seeking not only a guide tothe novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds McEwan's text.

Peter Childs is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University ofGloucestershire.