Solar - Ian McEwanMichael Beard is a Nobel prize winning physicist whose best work is behind him. He now spends his days speaking for enormous fees and half heartedly heading a government backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time, she's having the affair. When Beard's professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity arises for Beard to simultaneously save his