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Sat 03 Mar 2010A change of climate with every book
With each novel, Ian McEwan shifts ground radically and tries to forget what went before. But while his new climate-change comedy is still fresh in his mind, he tells Shane Hegartyabout the Arctic trip that inspired it
EUSTON ROAD is a functional artery through central London, heaving with traffic and lined by blocks of offices dense enough to hide the BT Tower that looms nearby. Yet you step off it a few yards and on to Fitzroy Square and there is little sound other than the crunch of the white gravel that rings the private garden at its centre and the bickering of a couple of French tourists pulling at a map.
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