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
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine as a schoolmaster, while Blaise wants to become a doctor. The theme of doubleness extends to the two types of love, sacred and profane. Blaise feels "that Harriet was his sacred love and Emily his profane" He sees himself as leading "a double life" and as "a man of two truths, since both these lives were valuable and true". "The Sacred and Profane Love Machine" is one of four Murdoch novels that take male adultery as a major theme. Harriet, Emily, and Blaise are all given narrative focus, and are all treated somewhat sympathetically by the author. However, Blaise's egotism