On Clarissa’s birthday, they go out to celebrate in a restaurant with several guests. As time goes by, Parry sends Joe more letters, and Joe and Clarissa’s relationship starts to become more and more strained. Parry is angry that Joe is writing scientific articles trying to disprove the existence of God. Joe goes home to find Parry waiting outside his apartment with a letter. He has a sudden epiphany about what Parry’s message might have meant. At that moment, he remembers a case of de Clerambault’s Syndrome where a French woman fell in love with the King of England and believed that he was sending her secret messages in curtains. While at Jean’s house, Joe sees her children playing in the curtains. Joe agrees to track down the other people at the picnic and ask them whether they saw Logan with a woman. Jean, who is a history professor at Oxford, tells Joe that she found a stranger’s scarf and picnic basket in her husband’s car after the accident and suspects that he was having an affair. To assuage his guilt, Joe decides to visit Jean Logan, the widow of John Logan. When she does not find any messages on their machine, she and Joe get into a fight, and Joe storms out of the house. Joe tells Clarissa that he is concerned about Parry’s obsession with him, but Clarissa thinks he is overreacting. Parry also leaves thirty-three messages for Joe on the couple’s answering machine, the last of which makes a cryptic reference to curtains. When Joe goes to the library to do research for an article he is writing, he believes he sees Parry there stalking him. Joe used to be a scientist, but decided to go into journalism after a failed patent application. While at the picnic, the couple also meets a religious man,Jed Parry,who takes a seemingly romantic interest in Joe. Joe and Clarissa are shaken by the accident and comfort each other. Only one man, a doctor named John Logan, holds on to his rope and is lifted into the sky with the balloon. However, a strong gust of wind lifts the balloon up, causing them to let go of the ropes. Joe and several other men run after the balloon and grab the ropes. The two are enjoying a picnic when they see a runaway hot air balloon with a frightened boy in the basket. Clarissa, an English professor who studies Keats, is more emotional and prefers to deal with things in an empathetic way. Joe, a science journalist, is very rational and prefers logic as a way of dealing with situations. Joe and Clarissa Rose are a young, married British couple. In 2004, it was adapted into a motion picture starring Daniel Craig and Samantha Morton, and directed by Roger Michell. The novel was shortlisted for the Whitbread Book Award in 1999.
Published in 1997, the novel details the existential crisis of a science journalist after he witnesses a fatal hot air balloon accident at a picnic. Enduring Love is the sixth novel written by award-winning British author Ian McEwan.
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