Twitter revealed to me yesterday that I wasn’t the only person thinking about Ian McEwan’s novel Enduring Love as I watched a runaway balloon (thought at the time to contain a six-year-old boy) flying across Colorado. Enduring Love has an incredible opening chapter featuring a horrific hot air balloon accident.

I think that chapter contains some of McEwan’s best writing – the tension is created immediately. The first chapter is so good that it’s hard to not consider the rest of the book as a bit of a disappointment.

The other thing I noticed about Twitter yesterday was that many people cannot spell balloon. A runaway baloon anyone!