7/6/2023 0 Comments The cement garden review![]() Sexual tension between Jack and his older sister, Julie, becomes increasingly obvious as they take over the roles of "mother" and "father" in the house, which is gradually deteriorating into squalor. ![]() Jack then mentions how he longs to do the same to his older sister but it is not allowed. Jack describes how, when they were younger, he and Julie would play doctor with their younger sister, although he is aware that their version of the game occasionally broke boundaries. The narrator is Jack (14 at the start of the book, becoming 15 later), and his siblings are Julie (17), Sue (13), and Tom (6). The children then attempt to live on their own. In order to avoid being taken into foster care, the children hide their mother's death from the outside world by encasing her corpse in cement in the cellar. Soon after, the children's mother also dies. ![]() In The Cement Garden, the father of four children dies. The Cement Garden has had a positive reception since its original publication. It was adapted into a 1993 film of the same name by Andrew Birkin, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Andrew Robertson. ![]() The Cement Garden is a 1978 novel by Ian McEwan. ![]()
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