Tuesday, February 3, 2026

What We Can Know - A Novel

What We Can Know by Ian McEwan, 2025. Another quick read. About nine days. This was a fascinating story about a search for a lost famous poem from the early 21st century by an academic scholar researching within the library archives in a climate changed drowned Britain in 2119. It's also a complicated love story too but mostly a look at our times as seen from the point of view of that dystopian future. We got blamed for the future. 

It was kind of like a science fiction novel but without the science. I think I read this novel quickly because I wanted it to be over. 

The only other Ian McEwan novel I've read was Atonement back in 2002. 

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