Author

Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan is the British novelist behind Atonement (Booker shortlist 2001), Amsterdam (Booker Prize 1998), Saturday, Solar, and Nutshell. His career runs more than fifty years from the 1975 First Love, Last Rites collection through the 2022 Lessons.

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5.0

First published

2001

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Our reviews of Ian McEwan's work

Atonement

by Ian McEwan

Atonement by Ian McEwan 2001 review. On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses something she does not understand and tells a lie that destroys her sister's life. Booker shortlist 2001 and one of the canonical novels of the twenty-first century.