"Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse but John's not here. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month old resident of Trudy's womb.
Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world's master storytellers."

Nutshell by Ian McEwan
Genres: Fiction

Also by this author: Amsterdam, Atonement, Saturday, On Chesil Beach, The Children Act, Sweet Tooth, Enduring Love, Solar, The Comfort of Strangers, The Child in Time, Black Dogs, The Innocent, First Love, Last Rites, In Between the Sheets, The Cement Garden

 

This is such an original novel, like nothing I have read before. It is all about a murder “seen” by a… foetus, a nine-month old baby soon-to-be-born. The baby’s mother, Trudy, has an affair with no one else but her brother-in-law and they are trying to get rid of John, Trudy’s husband.

You can read more about this book in The Guardian.