From the start, though, McEwan manages to establish both the groggy, gripping parameters of the uterus-'My limbs are folded hard across my chest, my head is wedged into my only exit. In The Guardian, Kate Clanchy began by admitting: "This may not sound like an entirely promising read: a talking foetus could be an unconvincing or at least tiresomely limited narrator, and updatings of Shakespeare often strain at their own seams. Book Marks, the review aggregator of Literary Hub, assigned the book an average grade of B+. Nutshell received generally positive reviews from book critics. He jotted down a few notes, and soon afterward, daydreaming in a long meeting, the first sentence of the novel popped into his head: 'So here I am, upside down in a woman.'" Critical reception 'We were talking about the baby, and I was very much aware of the baby as a presence in the room,' he recalls. Miller explained: "The idea for the extremely unusual narrator of Ian McEwan's new novel Nutshell first came to him while he was chatting with his pregnant daughter-in-law. Interviewing McEwan for The Wall Street Journal, Michael W. It retells William Shakespeare's play Hamlet from the point of view of an unborn child, and is set in 2015. Nutshell is the 14th novel by English author and screenwriter Ian McEwan published in 2016.
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