Quotes from book
The Cement Garden

Name: The Cement Garden
Author: Ian McEwan

The Cement Garden is a 1978 novel by Ian McEwan. It was adapted into a 1993 film of the same name by Andrew Birkin, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Andrew Robertson.

“I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way.”

Ian McEwan book The Cement Garden

Page 9. (Opening line of the book)
The Cement Garden (1978)

“Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.”

Ian McEwan book The Cement Garden

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