The Daydreamer

Ian Mcewan

Harper Collins, 2002 - Juvenile Fiction - 208 pages

Ten-year-old Peter Fortune has a vivid imagination. He understands just how it would feel to be a cat slinking around on soft paws, purring in the sun. He's experienced the terror and the excitement of being chased by evil dolls bent on vengeance. And he's felt the thrill of using a vanishing cream that can actually make people disappear.

Peter's imagination takes him to extraordinary places. But when it takes him to the place where reality and daydreams meet, has it finally taken him too far?

About the author

Ian McEwan was born in Aldershot, England on June 21, 1948. He received a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Sussex and an M.A. in English Literature from the University of East Anglia. He writes novels, plays, and collections of short stories including In Between the Sheets, The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers, The Innocent, Black Dogs, The Daydreamer, Enduring Love, Sweet Tooth, The Children Act and Nutshell. He has won numerous awards including the 1976 Somerset Maugham Award for First Love, Last Rites; the 1987 Whitbread Novel Award and the 1993 Prix Fémina Etranger for The Child in Time; the 1998 Booker Prize for Fiction for Amserdam; the 2002 W. H. Smith Literary Award, the 2003 National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award, the 2003 Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction, and the 2004 Santiago Prize for the European Novel for Atonement; and the 2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Saturday.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Daydreamer; Joanna Cotler books
• Author: Ian Mcewan
• Illustrated by: Anthony Browne
• Edition: illustrated, revised
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 2002
• ISBN: 0060530154, 9780060530150
• Length: 208 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Family / General; Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic; Juvenile Fiction / General; Juvenile Fiction / Imagination & Play; Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction / General