Atonement

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  • Author: Ian McEwan
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Catalogue: 183905
  • Size: 13x20cm
Ian McEwan's haunting tale unfolds on the hottest day of the English 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.

Shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize, McEwan has produced a landmark work in his oeuvre that also shows, quite literally as the crux of the books story, the power of just one word and the dangers of miscommunication.

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