The Ploughman's Lunch

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For the type of meal, see Ploughman's lunch.

The Ploughman's Lunch is a 1983 "issues" film written by Ian McEwan and directed by Richard Eyre. Its subtext, according to the BFI, is "the way countries and people re-write their own history to suit the needs of the present"; the film's title is a metaphor for the rewriting said to have occurred in the aftermath of the Falklands War.

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Works by Ian McEwan

Novels: The Cement Garden (1978) • The Comfort of Strangers (1981) • The Child in Time (1987) • The Innocent (1989) • Black Dogs (1992) • Enduring Love (1997) • Amsterdam (1998) • Atonement (2001) • Saturday (2005) • On Chesil Beach (2007)
Short Stories: First Love, Last Rites (1975) • In Between the Sheets (1978)
Childrens' novels: Rose Blanche (1985) • The Daydreamer (1994)
Plays and Screenplays: The Imitation Game (1981) • The Ploughman's Lunch (1985) • Sour Sweet (1989) • The Good Son (1993)

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