‘What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?’ – The Children Act by Ian McEwan

You've probably seen the First World Problems meme - 'they'd run out of squid at the supermarket', that kind of thing. The late fiction of Ian McEwan sometimes hinges on such problems as these. You could see it in Saturday (and the great online hubbub that sometimes surrounds a new McEwan made substantial amounts of hay with the terrible middle classness of it all). You can see it even more in The Children Act.

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