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Internationally best-selling author and Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan presents his first book for children-The Daydreamer. Peter Fortune is unlike most kids his age. In fact, he's different from everybody else in the world. Peter has the amazing ability to make his daydreams come true. A captivating narration from Simon Prebble brings McEwan's imaginative and adventurous story to vivid life for listeners of all ages.
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"I felt almost like a child while i was reading this novel,in which the author says(in its preface) ".... to write a book for adults about a child in a language that children could understand" . This novel is about daydreaming that many of us must have experienced in our childhood days. Novel is simple and delicate in its tone and subject matter.It is intricately written and can be as disturbing as you would expect, some intense and delightful imagination is at play here which can either make you smile or make you tense when viewed with the eyes of an 11 year old child. All in all it's a refreshing read and it was also my first of Ian McEwan's novels."
— Abhishek (4 out of 5 stars)
The Daydreamer Listener Reviews
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" Libro delizioso: l'ho consigliato a molta gente e non ho deluso nessuno "
— David-e, 2/13/2014 -
" It's been a while, but this book left me astounded when I was a kid. "
— Lindseyfish, 2/10/2014 -
" Charming. I'm sure I'll read this to my son one day. "
— Mary, 2/5/2014 -
" Super easy and entertaining read. "
— Katie, 2/3/2014 -
" Ian McEwan is no Roald Dahl, but this is a fun book. If I had a kid maybe 8 years or older, I'd read it to her. As it is, I liked thinking about the things you could do if you switched bodies with your cat, or what might happen if your dolls came to life -- something I was always watching for as a little girl. I will probably use the stories in my middle school writing workshops somehow. "
— Julie, 1/28/2014 -
" This is an interesting book. It's an attempt to appeal to both young and old readers, and I think it's relatively successful. It just didn't have the depth that I require from a great work for adults, though. "
— David, 1/25/2014 -
" This book was very, very, very odd! Half the time I didn't know what was happening! Though oddly enough, I still recommend this book. "
— Kate, 1/20/2014 -
" Cute and short. Not so much a novel as a collection of short episodes describing the various daydreams Peter Fortune experiences. His dreams often involve transformation into an animal or another person, and he always learns something in the process. "
— DL, 12/30/2013 -
" Stories written for children that explore looking at the world from different perspectives. "
— Kathleen, 11/22/2013 -
" McEwan has a gift for narrating through a child's eyes without the tales feeling contrived. The images of certain adventures are still salient to me. "
— Dani, 11/20/2013 -
" My first McEwan novel. His prose is crystalline and lovely. I ran out to get The Innocent about 5 minutes after I finished this. "
— Karen, 9/29/2013
About Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan is the author of more than a dozen books, including either New York Times bestsellers. His novel Amsterdam won the 1998 Book Prize; Atonement, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award; and The Child in Time won the Whitbread Award. His story collection, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award.
About Simon Prebble
Simon Prebble, a British-born performer, is a stage and television actor and veteran narrator of some three hundred audiobooks. As one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices, he has received thirty-seven Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie in 2010. He lives in New York.