What We Can Know by Ian McEwan Literature From humble beginnings as a

From humble beginnings as a peasant boy

The nuns do their chores

Short stories about people on the margins

It asks the ultimate question about this most complicated of relationships: What will a mother do for her child

Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale

What We Can Know by Ian McEwan Literature From humble beginnings as a2014: A poem is read aloud once then vanishes without a trace. 2119: A century later, the seas have risen and the world is under water. Those who remain are haunted by whats been lost and what might still be found. When university scholar Tom Metcalfe stumbles across a clue that may lead to the great lost poem, he reveals a story of entangled love and a brutal crime that challenges everything he thought he knew about the past REVIEWS "What We Can Know