Download or read book The Cement Garden written by Ian McEwan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the arid summer heat, four children – Jack, Julie, Sue and Tom – find themselves abruptly orphaned. All the routines of childhood are cast aside as the children adapt to a now parentless world. Alone in the house together, the children’s lives twist into something unrecognisable as the outside begins to bear down on them.