2014: At a candlelit dinner, celebrated poet Francis Blundy honors his wife with a new poem, A Corona for Vivien. Guests sip wine, plates are cleared, and life carries on. But the poem itself vanishes, leaving only whispers and speculation for generations.
2119: A century later, much of the West lies underwater after catastrophe. In the drowned south of England, lonely scholar Thomas Metcalfe obsesses over the lost poem, longing for the reckless freedom of a world already gone. When a clue surfaces, it reveals a story of entangled loves and a brutal crime.
From Booker Prize–winning author Ian McEwan, What We Can Know bends time and genre in a masterful exploration of memory, mystery, and how truth is never quite within reach.
