# The Cement Garden

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- Book: [The Cement Garden](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-mcewan/the-cement-garden) ([The Cement Garden.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-mcewan/the-cement-garden.md))
- Authors: [Ian McEwan](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-mcewan)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9975-511-1
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2023-07-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the arid summer heat, four children – Jack, Julie, Sue and Tom – find themselves abruptly orphaned. All the routines of childhood are cast aside as the children adapt to a now parentless world. Alone in the house together, the children’s lives twist into something unrecognisable as the outside begins to bear down on them.