Ian McEwan: Difference between revisions

In 2002, McEwan discovered that he had a brother who had been given up for adoption during the Second World War; the story became public in 2007.<ref>{{cite news |last=Cowell |first=Alan |title=Ian McEwan's life takes twist with discovery of a brother |work=International Herald Tribune |date=17 January 2007 |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/17/news/brother.php |access-date=23 March 2007}}</ref> The brother, a bricklayer named David Sharp, was born six years earlier than McEwan, when their mother was married to a different man. Sharp has the same mother and father as McEwan but was born from an affair that occurred before they married. After her first husband was killed in combat, McEwan's mother married her lover, and Ian was born a few years later.<ref>{{cite news |title=Novelist McEwan discovers brother |work=BBC News |date=11 January 2007 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6269887.stm |access-date=22 March 2007}}</ref> The brothers are in regular contact and McEwan has written a foreword to Sharp's memoir.

 

 

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