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The Cement Garden

The Cement Garden

Author(s): Ian McEwan

Location(s): England

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1990s

In the arid summer heat, four children – Jack, Julie, Sue and Tom – find themselves abruptly orphaned. All the routines of childhood are cast aside as the children adapt to a now parentless world. Alone in the house together, the children’s lives twist into something unrecognisable as the outside begins to bear down on them.

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