I was disappointed in this newest book by Ian McEwan whose earlier works I liked a great deal. Nutshell falls into the same camp as his last, The Children Act, reviewed here. While Nutshell had a unique premise – the story of his mother’s murder of his father told from the perspective of a nine-month-old fetus – it just wasn’t all that interesting or good. I finished it because it was short, but I could have given this one a skip for sure.