The Child in Time

A child's abduction sends a father reeling in this Whitbread Award-winning novel that explores time and loss.

Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children's books, is on a routine trip to the supermarket with his three-year-old daughter. In a brief moment of distraction, she suddenly vanishes-and is irretrievably lost. From that moment, Lewis spirals into bereavement that effects his marriage, his psyche, and his relationship with time itself: "It was a wonder that there could be so much movement, so much purpose, all the time. He himself had none at all."

The Child in Time has been adapted into a PBS Masterpiece movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch.