" I think I have to go with the consensus view on this one--I've read a number of books by McEwan, and this is the best of the lot. I do a lot of my reading on the Metro these days, and I would get so absorbed in this at times that I would look up from the book, disoriented as to just where I was. Never missed my stop (that's only happened once, while reading Anna Karenina), but I came close a couple of times. "
— Todd, 2/8/2014