Enduring Love Enduring Love Enduring Love (1997) is a novel by British writer Ian McEwan. The plot concerns two strangers who become perilously entangled after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful and cloudless day, a middle-aged couple celebrate their union with a picnic. Joe Rose, aged 47, and his long term partner Clarissa Mellon are about to open a bottle of wine when a cry interrupts them. A hot-air balloon, with a ten-year-old boy in the basket and his grandfather being dragged behind it, has been ripped from its moorings. Joe immediately joins several other men in an effort to bring
Kimberley Chambers (author) Chambers still writes all her books by hand. Her ninth novel, "Payback", was awarded a Specsavers Silver Bestseller Award in 2018 for sales in excess of 250,000 copies. Kimberley Chambers (author) Kimberley Chambers is a British novelist (born on 13 June 1967) who lives in Essex. She has published thirteen crime novels, including the Butler and Mitchells series, which are mainly set in Essex or East London. She writes gritty, crime family sagas, laced with her trademark humour, most often from the perspective of the villain. Three of her novels – "Payback", "Tainted Love" and "Life of Crime" - have