The play, for which Briony had designed the posters, programmes and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its side, and lined the collection box in red crepe paper, was written by her in a two-day tempest of composition, causing her to miss a breakfast and a lunch.
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On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, 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 imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.
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historical romance, Dunkirk Evacuation, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=2002, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction, Psychological fiction, Teenage girls, Fiction, Atonement, Ex-convicts, Sisters, Domestic fiction, Life change events, Country life, Guilt, open_syllabus_project, World War, 1939-1945, History, Family, Teenagers, False testimony, Historical fiction, Girls, Fictional Works [Publication Type], Dunkirk, Battle of, Dunkerque, France, 1940, Fictional Works, England, fiction, Sisters, fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, psychological, Fiction, family life, Judicial error, Large type books, Fiction, general, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Historical, FICTION / Sagas, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, Romans, Adolescents, Romans, nouvelles, Sœurs, Fiction, family life, general, Fiction, romance, historical, general, English literaturePeople
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Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2001.
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Atonement is a 2001 British metafiction novel written by Ian McEwan. Set in three time periods, 1935 England, Second World War England and France, and present-day England, it covers an upper-class girl's half-innocent mistake that ruins lives, her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake, and a reflection on the nature of writing.
Widely regarded as one of McEwan's best works, it was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for fiction. In 2010, Time magazine named Atonement in its list of the 100 greatest English-language novels since 1923.
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