A young girl’s imagination runs riot with far-reaching and devastating consequences, in Ian McEwan’s masterpiece of metafiction.
On a hot day in the summer of 1934, 13-year-old Briony sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching is Cecilia’s friend from childhood, Robbie Turner. 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 not imagined at its start. Briony will have committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.
About the Author
Ian McEwan, born in Aldershot, England, is a critically acclaimed author and winner of the 1998 Booker PrizeAtonement...is certainly his finest and most complex novel. It represents a new era in McEwan’s work
The cast of the film also included Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai and Vanessa Redgrave, and was directed by Joe Wright.
Atonement won the Bafta for Best Film and the Golden Globe for Best Drama Motion Picture, both in 2008, among other awards.
Kiera Knightley and James McAvoy in Atonement.
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