![]() The narrator is Jack (14 at the start of the book, becoming 15 later), and his siblings are Julie (17), Sue (13), and Tom (6). The children then attempt to live on their own. In order to avoid being taken into foster care, the children hide their mother's death from the outside world by encasing her corpse in cement in the cellar. Soon after, the children's mother also dies. ![]() In The Cement Garden, the father of four children dies. The Cement Garden has had a positive reception since its original publication. It was adapted into a 1993 film of the same name by Andrew Birkin, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Andrew Robertson. ![]() The Cement Garden is a 1978 novel by Ian McEwan. ![]()
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