'Twelve days of hell.' This is Ian McEwan's succinct description of his recent run-in with Covid. The 74-year-old novelist and his wife, Annalena McAfee, were 'knocked out' by it. 'We tried to keep going, but there came a point where we just had to collapse.'He has, just about, recovered now, and the fact that he looks somewhat vulnerable on my Zoom screen may be less the illness and more that McEwan is devoid of his usual glasses, and looks small in the scale of the room in which he sits — in his Gloucestershire home — with a desk behind him piled high with books, another in front of him, and shelves across the back wall well stocked.

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