2x In person tickets to Ian McEwan | What We Can Know Sun 23 Nov | 12:00pm, Cambridge Union.

A new novel from one of our greatest writers is always cause for celebration! Ian McEwan’s latest, What We Can Know, is no exception.

Moving between the present day and a future reshaped by climate catastrophe, McEwan imagines a Britain fragmented into island archipelagos after the seas have risen. In this drowned landscape, academic Tom Metcalfe pores over the archives of a lost world, captivated by the richness of human life before the flood. When he uncovers a clue to a vanished poem — once read aloud in 2014 and never heard again — he is drawn into a story of entangled loves, secrets and betrayal that challenges everything he thought he understood.

With his trademark brilliance, McEwan applauds the extraordinary tenacity of the human spirit in the face of devastation, showing us that even in a climate-ravaged future, all is not lost. Expect a riveting conversation exploring love, loss, survival, the life of the artist and the power of literature to illuminate the darkest of times.

In conversation with Alex Clark.

Venue: TTP Stage (Cambridge Union)

Duration: 1 hour