What We Can Know

Ian McEwan

• 18 september 2025
• 9781529959215

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In a world submerged by rising seas, can the secrets of the past be discovered? The breathtaking Sunday Times bestseller.

‘Full of wisdom and heart. I loved it’ Elif Shafak
‘A gripping page-turner’ Observer
‘It gave me so much pleasure’ New York Times

2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message.

2119: With the UK’s lowlands submerged by rising seas, those who survive are haunted by all that has been lost.

Tom Metcalfe, a university scholar, pores over the archives of the early twenty-first century. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the lost poem, he reveals a story of entangled love and a brutal crime that challenges everything he thought he knew about the past.

**‘**What We Can Know may well have created a new genre’ Sunday Times

‘Brilliantly plotted… In What We Can Know**, the past is an irresistible riddle’** Washington Post

‘Propulsive…entertaining and enjoyable’ Financial Times

‘A dazzling novel’ Independent

‘Haunting, playful and ultimately hopeful… A wonderful book’ Kaliane Bradley

‘A poignant love letter to the vanishing past’ Guardian

*A BOOK OF THE YEAR for the Sunday Times**,** Guardian**,** New York Times**,** New Statesman**,** Spectator**,** New Yorker**,** i Paper and Barack Obama*