Atonement
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409090021
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384

Atonement

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15 Jun 2014
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1 Jul 2010
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'The best thing he has ever written' Observer

Discover the modern classic that has sold over two million copies.

‘A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended’

On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, 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 too is Robbie Turner 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, as Briony commits a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.

'The best thing he has ever written' Observer

**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409090021
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384
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About the author

Ian McEwan

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; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

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Praise for Atonement

A beautiful and majestic fictional panorama

John Updike

A complex, thought-provoking novel.

Fanny Blake, Woman and Home

A magnificent novel

Independent

A superb achievement

New York Times

An astonishing narrative... a novel that stick with you long after you finish it

Rich Clarke, Week

An evocative depiction of the dangers of innocence and ignorance in the face of uncomfortable reality.

Herald

Atonement is a masterpiece...it is also an elegy to a time which, however volatile, still had certainties

The Times

Brilliantly explores the currents of guilt, shame and anger... Utterly satisfying, complete

Scotsman

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

Independent on Sunday

McEwan's best novel so far, his masterpiece

Evening Standard

Smoulders with slow-burning menace

The Times

Subtle as well as powerful, adeptly encompassing comedy as well as atrocity, Atonement is a richly intricate book... A superb achievement

Sunday Times

The best thing he has ever written

Observer