Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world's master storytellers, Ian McEwan. The narrator is an embryo, the plot follows the plot of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The first sentence set the tone: “So here I am, upside down in a woman. Arms patiently crossed, waiting, waiting and wondering who I’m in, what I’m in for.”

Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home, a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse, but John's not here. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month old resident of Trudy's womb. 

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