Atonement

Atonement has sold over 2 million copies in its combined editions and was shortlisted for 2001 Booker PrizeThe smash hit film of Atonement, starring Keira Knightley and James MacAvoy, took the world by storm on its release in 2007, winning a Bafta and a Golden Globe.A National Curriculum set textIncludes a reading guideMcEwan is the winner of the 1998 Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham award, the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, and the 2011 Jerusalem Prize.Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.The publication of Atonement cemented Ian McEwan’s reputation as one of the most exciting and accomplished writers of his generation. From its breath-taking opening section, telling the events of a fateful summer’s day in 1935, McEwan unravels a tale of love and war that breaks the heart, even as the master novelist’s provocative twists of form dazzle the senses.He is this country's unrivalled literary giant...a fascinatingly strange, unique and gripping novelIan McEwan’s highly-charged story of sin and forgiveness is masterfully told. Tense, shocking and heart-breaking in equal turn.Atonement is a masterpiece...it is also an elegy to a time which, however volatile, still had certaintiesA beautiful and majestic fictional panoramaA deft and brilliant exploration of guilt, family and the rippling repercussions of a single moment in life