"On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony's sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination. And Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will color her entire life"--
"Subtle as well as powerful, adeptly encompassing comedy as well as atrocity. Atonement is a richly intricate book ... A superb achievement" (Sunday Times)
"He is this country`s unrivalled literary giant ... a fascinatingly strange, unique and gripping novel" (Independent on Sunday)
"The best thing he has ever written" (Observer)
"McEwan`s best novel so far, his masterpiece" (Evening Standard)
"He is this country`s unrivalled literary giant ... a fascinatingly strange, unique and gripping novel" (Independent on Sunday)
"The best thing he has ever written" (Observer)
"McEwan`s best novel so far, his masterpiece" (Evening Standard)
He is this country's unrivalled literary giant...a fascinatingly strange, unique and gripping novel Independent on Sunday