Atonement

Briony Tallis, thirteen, witnesses her sister Cecilia stripping naked and plunging into the fountain in their country house's garden on the hottest day of the summer of 1935. Robbie Turner, who, like Cecilia, has recently returned from Cambridge, is also keeping an eye on her. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever, as Briony commits a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.

Atonement is a profoundly moving exploration of shame and forgiveness, as well as the difficulty of absolution. It is brilliant and completely enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class.

Ian McEwan is the best-selling author of eighteen books, including the novels Machines Like Me; Nutshell; The Children Act; Sweet Tooth; Solar, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize; On Chesil Beach; Saturday; Atonement, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the WH Smith Literary Award; The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs, both short-listed for the Booker Prize; Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize; and The Child in Time, winner of the Whitbread Award; as well as the story collections First Love, Last Rites, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and In Between the Sheets.

Author: Ian McEwan

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