The Daydreamer

He's a quiet ten year old who can't help himself from dropping out of reality and into the amazing world of his vivid imagination. His daydreams are fantastic and fascinating - only in the bizarre and disturbing world of dreams can he swap bodies with the family cat and his baby cousin, Kenneth, or wipe out his entire family with vanishing cream.

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; Machines Like Me; and Lessons. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

"A brilliant book - wonderful" TES "A classic" Financial Times "Exhilarating - briliant" Independent "Clear and vivid prose ... Read these aloud to your children and be unsettled by them" -- Katie Law Evening Standard 20050214 "This is a book that could be read at several levels. The dreams can be taken at face-value, but they also reveal themes that more astute readers might recognise ... A good read" Writeaway! 20050330