The Child in Time (1987) won the Whitbread Novel Award and marked a new confidence in McEwan's writing. The Cement Garden was followed by The Comfort of Strangers (1981), set in Venice, a tale of fantasy, violence, and obsession. Soon, an incestuous relationship develops between the two oldest children as they seek to emulate their parents roles. To avoid being taken into custody, they bury their mother in the cement of the basement and attempt to carry on life as normally as possible. McEwan's first novel, The Cement Garden (1978), is the story of four orphaned children living alone after the death of both parents. These stories-claustrophobic tales of childhood, deviant sexuality and disjointed family life-were remarkable for their formal experimentation and controlled narrative voice. A second volume of his work appeared in 1978. First Love, Last Rites was McEwan's first published book and is a collection of short stories that in 1976 won the Somerset Maugham Award.
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