The daydreamer

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Taking childhood as his subject matter, The Daydreamer is Ian McEwan's first work of fiction that appeals to children as well as adults. In these seven interlinked stories the grown-up Peter reveals the secret journeys, metamorphoses and adventures of his childhood. Living somewhere between dream and reality, Peter experiences magical transformations. He swaps bodies with the family cat, with a baby and, in the final story, wakes up as a twelve-year-old inside a grown-up body and embarks on the adventure of falling in love.