Description
What We Can Know is Ian McEwan's audacious new novel - part literary mystery, part love story, part climate reckoning.
Spanning from 2014 to a submerged future Britain in 2119, it weaves together a tantalizing puzzle: a celebrated poem recited once and vanished forever.
When scholar Tom Metcalfe discovers a thread leading to this lost work in the archives, he unravels something far more complex—a tale of passion, betrayal, and dark secrets that upends everything he believed.
As rising seas claim the lowlands and survivors mourn a vanished world, McEwan asks profound questions about human connection, knowledge, and what endures.
A masterpiece that captures both the richness of what they've lost and the possibilities of what lies ahead.
Shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards Fiction Award 2025.
Hardback 320 pages.
Approx: 16.4 x 24.1 cm.