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. 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.
"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