Unbearable Love is a story of obsession, a survival guide for people whose comfortable lives have been invaded by a dangerous, surreal mania. Having become a witness, and in a sense an accomplice, of an accident during the launch of a balloon, the hero of the novel tries to cope with someone else’s love - unrequited, groundless and boundless. How to keep the remnants of your own sanity under control if the dark demons of madness and craving for an unattainable deity come together in the battle for your soul?

Ian McEwan is one of the “ruling triumvirate” of modern British prose (along with Julian Barnes and Martin Amis), winner of the Booker Prize for his novel Amsterdam.