Amsterdam by Ian McEwan #foliosociety beetle banks are built across

beetle banks are built across fields

and it had taken some time to reach the village

into a world apparently born of children’s stories

and no less urgent

Little BrownISBN: 9781398711563Extent: 432 pages

Amsterdam by Ian McEwan #foliosociety beetle banks are built acrossTwo old friends Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday meet at the funeral of gorgeous, witty Molly Lane. Both men had been Molly's lovers years before their dazzling success; Clive is Britain's most eminent modern composer and Vernon is the editor of the respected broadsheet, The Judge. In the weeks that follow, Clive and Vernon's lives become bound together in ways neither could have imagined. Two dubious moral decisions and a pact made in extremis lead