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This new audio edition of Ian McEwan’s beloved modern classic is narrated by Olivier Award winner and Emmy nominee Harriet Walter, who starred as Emily Tallis in the Academy Award-winning film adaptation of Atonement. Her recent credits range from The Crown to Succession and Ted Lasso.

On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia plunge naked 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.

Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.

'The best thing he has ever written' Observer

‘Atonement is a masterpiece’ The Times

**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**

© 2001 Ian McEwan (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Critics Review

  • 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

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