Bookseller Reviews
View all
Sunny Side up
The author of widely acclaimed novels such as Enduring Love, Amsterdam, Atonement and Saturday turns his hand to the comic novel in this fictional explorat... READ MORE
actions have consequences!
Solar is about a balding corpulent late middle-aged physicist by the name of Michael Beard. Can the life of such a man make the subject of an interesting n... READ MORE
Different
Very different from his other books, this one is just as enjoyable. I would say it is aimed more at men than women.
Synopsis
Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: his wife is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. When Beard's professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- ISBN: 9780099549024
- Number of pages: 304
- Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 20 mm
- Weight: 250g
- Languages: English
Customer Reviews
View allDisappointed
I was disappointed by this book as I have enjoyed other books by the author.
The long scientific parts bored me and I didn't really care what happened to t... READ MORE
Given up as a bad job...
I have just given up this one, and its very rare that I give up on a book!
Like someone else said, there is too much science. Its boring and I think its j... READ MORE
Solar
I plodded through to the bitter end, hoping it would get better. It was depressing - not a holiday read. I was hoping for something to make me laugh. The b... READ MORE
Informative read
Ian McEwan has a brilliant reputation - I have only read one of his previous novels "On Chesil Beach" which I found a rather boring and very quick read. So... READ MORE
Solar - bursting with laughter.
A brilliant read, reminds me of the real Amis (Kingsley). Once you start it is difficult to put down.
Funny & engrossing
I thoroughly enjoyed this. A new book by Ian McEwan is always an intriguing prospect, because one never knows quite what to expect - other than that it wil... READ MORE
Get's you thinking...
Anthropogenic Global Warming is a serious concern and not one without controversy. Put simply anthropogenic, from the Greek 'man made', describes a series ... READ MORE
Reads like a Ben Elton novel
...In that it's pitched as a comedy without being amusing, deals with a marvellous invention to save the planet which is ultimately squashed by those with ... READ MORE
Uncomfortable humour
The epigraph to Solar is an extract from Updike’s ‘Rabbit is Rich’. This immediately rang alarm bells with a reader who is positively un-enamoured with the... READ MORE
Sci-fiction readers this is not for you.
Great fun to read
Michael Beard lurches from one personal and business disaster to another with them all finally coming to confront him at last. The book has the science of ... READ MORE
solar by ian mcewan
The story was a perfect time filler for me, it went down like the creme in my coffee. And, the characters all had the right amount of anhilistic tendencies... READ MORE
You may also like...
East of Eden
Price: £12.99
Hamnet
Price: £10.99
The Wedding People
Price: £10.99
The Names
Price: £10.99
We All Live Here
Price: £9.99
Flesh
Price: £9.99
When the Cranes Fly South
Price: £9.99
The Eights
Price: £9.99
Land
Price: £25.00
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Price: £22.00
The Long Shoe
Price: £9.99
Land
Price: £25.00
The Divorce
Price: £9.99
Heart the Lover
Price: £9.99
Atmosphere
Price: £9.99
The Impossible Fortune
Price: £9.99