Atonement

'The best thing he has ever written' ObserverDiscover 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' ObserverONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY

Winner of WH Smith Literary Prize 2002
Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book - Eurasia 2002
Short-listed for WH Smith Book Awards (Fiction) 2002
Short-listed for Whitbread Prize (Fiction) 2001
Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 2001

“A magnificent novel”

He is this country's unrivalled literary giant...a fascinatingly strange, unique and gripping novel Independent on Sunday
Ian McEwan’s highly-charged story of sin and forgiveness is masterfully told. Tense, shocking and heart-breaking in equal turn. Grazia
Atonement is a masterpiece...it is also an elegy to a time which, however volatile, still had certainties The Times
A beautiful and majestic fictional panorama
A deft and brilliant exploration of guilt, family and the rippling repercussions of a single moment in life Red
A superb achievement New York Times
Independent
The best thing he has ever written Observer
McEwan's best novel so far, his masterpiece Evening Standard
Subtle as well as powerful, adeptly encompassing comedy as well as atrocity, Atonement is a richly intricate book... A superb achievement Sunday Times

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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