A minor accident in his car brings him into a confrontation with a small-time thug. After an unusual sighting in the early morning sky, he makes his way to his regular squash game with his anaesthetist, trying to avoid the hundreds of thousands of marchers filling the streets of London, protesting against the war. On this particular Saturday morning, Perowne's day moves through the ordinary to the extraordinary. There is an impending war against Iraq, and a general darkening and gathering pessimism since the New York and Washington attacks two years before. Outside the hospital, the world is not so easy or predictable. He is as at ease here as he is in the operating room. Henry wakes to the comfort of his large home in central London on this, his day off. Henry Perowne is a contented man a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children. Saturday is a masterful novel set within a single day in February 2003. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. From the pen of a master the #1 bestselling, Booker Prizewinning author of Atonement comes an astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it.
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