If the complexities of human relationships intrigue you, "Black Dogs" offers a profound exploration. It's not just about the love and the ideological differences between Bernard and June, but also reflects on the larger societal changes mirroring their tumultuous relationship. McEwan's skill in weaving personal narratives with historical events will leave you pondering long after you turn the last page.

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• Booker Prize Nominee (1992)
• Premio Grinzane Cavour Nominee for Narrativa Straniera (1992)

Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, "Black Dogs" is the intimate story of the crumbling of a marriage, as witnessed by an outsider. Jeremy is the son-in-law of Bernard and June Tremaine, whose union and estrangement began almost simultaneously. Seeking to comprehend how their deep love could be defeated by ideological differences Bernard and June cannot reconcile, Jeremy undertakes writing June's memoirs, only to be led back again and again to one terrifying encounter forty years earlier - a moment that, for June, was as devastating and irreversible in its consequences as the changes sweeping Europe in Jeremy's own time. In a finely crafted, compelling examination of evil and grace, Ian McEwan weaves the sinister reality of civilisation's darkest moods - its black dogs - with the tensions that both create love and destroy it.

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