From the inexhaustible imagination of Ian McEwan--a master of
contemporary fiction and author of the Booker Prize-winning
national bestseller Amsterdam--an enchanting work of fiction
that appeals equally to children and adults.
First published in England as a children's book, The
Daydreamer marks a delightful foray by one of our greatest
novelists into a new fictional domain. In these seven exquisitely
interlinked episodes, the grown-up protagonist Peter Fortune
reveals the secret journeys, metamorphoses, and adventures of his
childhood. Living somewhere between dream and reality, Peter
experiences fantastical transformations: he swaps bodies with the
wise old family cat; exchanges existences with a cranky infant;
encounters a very bad doll who has come to life and is out for
revenge; and rummages through a kitchen drawer filled with useless
objects to discover some not-so-useless cream that actually makes
people vanish. Finally, he wakes up as an eleven-year-old inside a
grown-up body and embarks on the truly fantastic adventure of
falling in love. Moving, dreamlike, and extraordinary, The
Daydreamer marks yet another imaginative departure for Ian
McEwan, and one that adds new breadth to his body of work.