Ian McEwan's life takes twist with discovery of a brother

LONDON: He is known as an author of dark and tangled tales, where love sometimes endures and sometimes does not. But Ian McEwan, one of Britain's best-known novelists, has now found himself as a player in a true story that might have sprung from his own imagination.
The tale, first disclosed in a British provincial newspaper, relates the anguish of a wartime mother in 1942, handing over her newborn baby to strangers on a railroad station platform to
hide the evidence of a clandestine affair while her husband was fighting overseas.
The woman, it turns out, was McEwan's mother. The baby was his older brother, David Sharp, now 64 years old, whose existence the writer had not suspected for most of his life.