"However close you get to others, you can never get inside them, even when you're inside them." 
 Brutal, grotesque, and yet so beautifully written. McEwan does prose like no other; in this book writing from an unborn baby's point-of-view, using the uncertainty and the lack of vision to create haunting images and an almost creepy ambience. 
 The story itself it not new. In fact it is old, but McEwan has a deep human understanding, that turns the story into something far more extraordinary than its plot synopsis leads you to believe.