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By (author) McEwan, Ian
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On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl”s imagination.
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On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge.
By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl”s imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.
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He is this country”s unrivalled literary giant…a fascinatingly strange, unique and gripping novel
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Ian McEwan’s highly-charged story of sin and forgiveness is masterfully told. Tense, shocking and heart-breaking in equal turn.
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Atonement is a masterpiece…it is also an elegy to a time which, however volatile, still had certainties
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A beautiful and majestic fictional panorama
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A deft and brilliant exploration of guilt, family and the rippling repercussions of a single moment in life
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A superb achievement
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A magnificent novel
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The best thing he has ever written
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McEwan”s best novel so far, his masterpiece
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Subtle as well as powerful, adeptly encompassing comedy as well as atrocity, Atonement is a richly intricate book… A superb achievement
Biographical note:
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.
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The magnificent book behind the acclaimed film starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy.
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