“Enduring Love by Ian McEwan How appropriate is the title of the novel?”

At first glance, Enduring Love may seem a simple title for a novel, not one that invokes serious thought for the reader. Although we expect a story of love, we are presented with a much more complicated array of events revolving around three people, all with their own version of Enduring Love.

Ultimately the story revolves around the somewhat content relationship between Joe Rose, an accomplished and well-respected science writer and his partner Clarissa Mellon, a Keats scholar and university lecturer. That is until the intrusion by Jed Parry….(short extract)