Atonement
- Author Ian McEwan
- Narrator Carole Boyd
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 12 hours and 27 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Historical fiction, Historical romance, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Social issues.
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What to expect
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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.
©2001 Ian McEwan (P)2014 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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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
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A deft and brilliant exploration of guilt, family and the rippling repercussions of a single moment in life
Red
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