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"Life in September is keyed up to a fresh start. Caught in the doldrums of August we may have regretted the departing summer. Now, however, we look forward to winters approach. We forget the fogs, the slush, the sore throats and the price of coal, we think only of long evenings by lamplight, the books which we are really going to read this time, of the bright shop windows and the keen edge of early frosts."

Here we go again - my nerves are all aflutter.

I won't lie, this is a marathon of a book. McEwan can write but good grief does he drag it out.