Atonement

Ian McEwan

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EAN: 9780099563051
Published: 4 Aug 2011

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On the hottest day of summer in 1934, Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is her childhood friend, Robbie Turner. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have changed for ever: Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed an unimagined boundary, and Briony will have committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.

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Atonement is a magnificent novel, shaped and paced with awesome confidence and eloquence
- Independent

Subtle as well as powerful, adeptly encompassing comedy as well as atrocity, Atonement is a richly intricate book- A superb achievement which combines a magnificent display of the powers of the imagination with a probing exploration of them
- Sunday Times

He is this country's unrivalled literary giant...a fascinatingly strange, unique and gripping novel
- Independent on Sunday

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About the Author

Ian McEwan's last novel, Amsterdam, won the 1998 Booker Prize. He lives in Oxford.