Enduring Love

Enduring Love is a novel by Ian McEwan that I found very unsettling. It contains superb descriptions of very intimate emotions and the practical effects of their entanglement on a married couple's life. I'm yet to come across a Ian McEwan book that I don't like.

Synopsis

One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organized life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them - something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him to the brink of murder and madness.