BEST-SELLiNG

author ian McEwan has been mocked for some of his literary love scenes, but he appears determined to keep documenting high passions. ‘To fall in love and have sex, and to do both at the same time, is the one truly outstanding and great moment of adult life,’ he gushes. ‘Nothing will ever get better than that. Not skiing, not cocaine . . . Nothing will top that peak.Well, except, maybe, finishing a novel . . . ’