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Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data">Print (hardcover)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Pages</th><td class="infobox-data">371 pp</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 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.cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-224-06252-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-224-06252-2">0-224-06252-2</a> (first edition)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)"><abbr title="Online Computer Library Center number">OCLC</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47231087">47231087</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Atonement</b></i> is a 2001 British <a href="/wiki/Metafictional" class="mw-redirect" title="Metafictional">metafictional</a> novel written by <a href="/wiki/Ian_McEwan" title="Ian McEwan">Ian McEwan</a>. Set in three time periods, 1935 England, <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Second World War</a> 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. </p><p>Widely regarded as one of McEwan's best works, it was shortlisted for the 2001 <a href="/wiki/Booker_Prize" title="Booker Prize">Booker Prize</a> for fiction.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2010, <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i> magazine named <i>Atonement</i> in its list of the 100 greatest English-language novels since 1923.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2007, the book was adapted into a <a href="/wiki/BAFTA_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="BAFTA Award">BAFTA</a> and <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award">Academy Award</a>-winning <a href="/wiki/Atonement_(2007_film)" title="Atonement (2007 film)">film of the same title</a>, starring <a href="/wiki/Saoirse_Ronan" title="Saoirse Ronan">Saoirse Ronan</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_McAvoy" title="James McAvoy">James McAvoy</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Keira_Knightley" title="Keira Knightley">Keira Knightley</a>, and directed by <a href="/wiki/Joe_Wright" title="Joe Wright">Joe Wright</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Synopsis">Synopsis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atonement_(novel)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Synopsis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Part_one">Part one</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atonement_(novel)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Part one"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Briony Tallis, a 13-year-old English girl with a talent for writing, lives at her family's <a href="/wiki/Country_estate" class="mw-redirect" title="Country estate">country estate</a> with her parents Jack and Emily Tallis, who are members of the <a href="/wiki/Landed_gentry" title="Landed gentry">landed gentry</a>. Her older sister Cecilia has recently graduated from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a> with Robbie Turner, the Tallis family housekeeper's son and Cecilia's childhood friend, whose university education was funded by Jack Tallis. </p><p>In the summer of 1935, Briony's maternal cousins, 15-year-old Lola and 9-year-old twins Jackson and Pierrot, visit the family amidst their parents' divorce. Briony and Cecilia's older brother Leon returns from <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, accompanied by his friend from <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">Oxford</a>, the well-off manufacturer Paul Marshall. Cecilia and Robbie bicker over a vase, which breaks and falls into a pond. Cecilia strips to her underwear and dives in to retrieve the pieces, surprising Robbie. Briony, watching from a window, is confused and intrigued by Cecilia and Robbie's actions. She is inspired to begin writing <a href="/wiki/Psychological_fiction" title="Psychological fiction">psychological realism</a>, and the reader is informed that this will eventually become a hallmark of her fiction. </p><p>In the wake of the incident by the pond, Robbie realizes he is attracted to Cecilia, and writes several drafts of a love letter to her. He gives the letter to Briony to deliver to Cecilia; however, he inadvertently gives her a version he had meant to discard, which contains lewd references ("In my dreams I kiss your <a href="/wiki/Cunt" title="Cunt">cunt</a>"). By the time Robbie realizes his mistake, Briony has already returned to the house with his letter. </p><p>Despite Robbie's instructions to the contrary, Briony opens the letter and reads it. She is shocked by its vulgar language, and becomes convinced that Robbie intends to harm Cecilia. An injured Lola goes to Briony for comfort, claiming that her younger brothers attacked her, although it is implied to have instead been Paul Marshall, who has a long scratch on his face. Briony relays the contents of the letter to Lola, who labels Robbie a "maniac," re-affirming Briony's feelings. Robbie arrives at the main house for a family dinner party, and is confronted by Cecilia. He confesses his feelings to her, and she responds in kind. Later the same evening, Briony walks in on Robbie and Cecilia having sex in the library. The immature Briony believes she interrupted a vicious assault on Cecilia, and stands stunned while Robbie and Cecilia quickly exit. </p><p>At the dinner, which is generally tense, it is discovered the twins have run away. The party breaks into teams to search for them. When Cecilia goes with Leon, Robbie and Briony each set off on their own. In the darkness, while everyone is searching for the twins, Briony discovers her cousin Lola being raped by an assailant neither girl can clearly see. The attacker flees. Briony, convinced that it must have been Robbie, gets Lola to agree that she likely heard Robbie's voice. The girls return home, and Briony identifies Robbie to the police as the rapist, claiming she saw his face in the dark. Lola is sedated by the local doctor, Cecilia screams at Briony and locks herself in her room, and Paul Marshall shares cigarettes with the policemen. </p><p>Robbie does not return, and the family and police officers stay awake waiting for him. As dawn breaks, Robbie appears in the driveway with Jackson and Pierrot, having found and rescued them. He is arrested on the spot and taken away, with only Cecilia and his mother believing his protestations of innocence. Briony is satisfied by this conclusion to her mythologized version of the events, with her as the hero and Robbie as the villain. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Part_two">Part two</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atonement_(novel)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Part two"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By the time the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Second World War</a> has started, Robbie has spent several years in prison. He and Cecilia have passed several years exchanging letters, maintaining their love for each other. Robbie is released from prison on the condition he enlist in the army. Meanwhile, Cecilia has completed training as a nurse, and cut off all contact with her family for the parts they played in locking Robbie up. Shortly before Robbie is deployed to France, they meet once for half an hour, during Cecilia's lunch break. Their reunion starts awkwardly, but they share a kiss before leaving each other. </p><p>In France, the war is going badly, and the army is retreating to <a href="/wiki/Dunkirk" title="Dunkirk">Dunkirk</a>. As the injured Robbie makes his way there, he thinks about his love for Cecilia and his hatred for Briony. However, he eventually concludes that Briony was too young to be blamed fully, and writes Cecilia a letter encouraging her to reconnect with her family. His condition deteriorates over the course of the section; he weakens and becomes delirious. Robbie falls asleep in Dunkirk, one day before the <a href="/wiki/Dunkirk_evacuation" title="Dunkirk evacuation">evacuation</a> begins. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Part_three">Part three</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atonement_(novel)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Part three"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A remorseful Briony, now eighteen years old, has refused her place at Cambridge and instead is a trainee nurse in London. She has realised the full extent of her mistake and decides it was Paul Marshall, Leon's friend, whom she saw with Lola. </p><p>Briony still writes fiction, and receives a letter from <a href="/wiki/Cyril_Connolly" title="Cyril Connolly">Cyril Connolly</a> at the hospital where she works. Cyril is rejecting Briony's submitted draft of her latest work to his magazine, <a href="/wiki/Horizon_(British_magazine)" title="Horizon (British magazine)"><i>Horizon</i></a>, but providing kindly and constructive feedback. The reader comes to realise that the work is in fact the first draft of the first section of this novel, and by reading that section again may ascertain that at some point in the future, Briony takes on board some of the feedback she received. </p><p>Briony travels to attend the wedding of Paul Marshall and her cousin Lola, with the knowledge that Lola is marrying her rapist. Briony considers speaking up during the wedding, but does not. Afterwards, she visits Cecilia, who is cold but invites Briony in nonetheless. While Briony is apologizing to Cecilia, Robbie unexpectedly appears from the bedroom. He has been living with Cecilia while he is on leave from the army. Robbie expresses his fury at Briony, but with Cecilia's soothing remains civil. </p><p>Cecilia and Robbie both refuse to forgive Briony, who nonetheless tells them she will try to put things right. She promises to begin the legal procedures needed to exonerate Robbie, even though Paul Marshall will never be held responsible for his crime because of his marriage to Lola. As Briony leaves Cecilia's, she is optimistic about her role in Robbie's exoneration, thinking that it will be "a new draft, an atonement" and that she is ready to begin. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Postscript">Postscript</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atonement_(novel)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Postscript"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The final section, titled "London 1999", is narrated by Briony herself in the form of a diary entry. Now 77, she is a successful novelist who has recently been diagnosed with <a href="/wiki/Multi-infarct_dementia" class="mw-redirect" title="Multi-infarct dementia">vascular dementia</a>, so she is facing rapid mental decline. </p><p>It is confirmed that Briony is the author of the preceding three sections of the novel. She attends a party in her honor at the Tallis family home, where the extended Tallis children perform <i>The Trials of Arabella</i>, the play that 13-year-old Briony had written and unsuccessfully attempted to stage with her cousins in the summer of 1935. Leon and Pierrot are in attendance, Jackson is fifteen years deceased, and Lola is alive but does not attend. Finally, Briony reveals to the reader that Robbie Turner died of <a href="/wiki/Septicaemia" class="mw-redirect" title="Septicaemia">septicaemia</a> on the beaches of Dunkirk, that Cecilia was killed several months later when a bomb destroyed <a href="/wiki/Balham_station#Second_World_War" title="Balham station">Balham Underground station</a> during <a href="/wiki/The_Blitz" title="The Blitz">the Blitz</a>, and that Briony's story of seeing them together in 1940 was a fabrication. Briony did attend Lola's wedding to Paul Marshall, but confesses she was too "cowardly" to visit the recently bereaved Cecilia to make amends. The novel, which she says is factually true apart from Robbie and Cecilia being reunited, is her lifelong attempt at "atonement" for what she did to them. </p><p>Briony justifies her invented happy ending by saying she does not see what purpose it would serve to give readers a "pitiless" story. She writes, "I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, to let my lovers live and to unite them at the end." </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Main_characters">Main characters</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atonement_(novel)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Main characters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Briony Tallis</b> – The younger sister of Leon and Cecilia Tallis, Briony is an aspiring writer. She is a thirteen-year-old at the beginning of the novel and takes part in sending Robbie Turner to jail when she falsely claims that he assaulted Lola. Briony is part narrator, part character and we see her transformation from child to woman as the novel progresses. At the end of the novel, Briony has realised her wrongdoing as a child and decides to write the novel to find atonement.</li> <li><b>Cecilia Tallis</b> – The middle child in the Tallis family, Cecilia has fallen in love with her childhood companion, Robbie Turner. After a tense encounter by the fountain, she and Robbie do not speak again until they meet before a formal dinner. When Robbie is falsely accused of rape shortly after, Cecilia loses him to prison and war, and chooses not to contact any members of her family again.</li> <li><b>Leon Tallis</b> – The eldest child in the Tallis family, Leon returns home to visit. He brings his friend Paul Marshall along with him on his trip home.</li> <li><b>Emily Tallis</b> – Emily is the mother of Briony, Cecilia, and Leon. Emily is ill in bed for most of the novel, suffering from severe migraines.</li> <li><b>Jack Tallis</b> – Jack is the father of Briony, Cecilia, and Leon. Jack often works late nights and it is alluded to in the novel that he is having an affair.</li> <li><b>Robbie Turner</b> – Robbie is the son of Grace Turner, who lives on the grounds of the Tallis home. Having grown up with Leon, Briony and Cecilia, he knows the family well. He attended Cambridge University with Cecilia and when they come home after graduating, they fall in love. Robbie is sent to jail for three and a half years, when Briony falsely accuses him of raping Lola.</li> <li><b>Grace Turner</b> – The mother of Robbie Turner, she was given permission from Jack Tallis to live on the grounds. She has become the family's maid and does laundry for the Tallises. When her son is falsely accused of raping Lola, only she and Cecilia believe he is innocent, and Grace chooses to leave the Tallis family.</li> <li><b>Lola Quincey</b> – A 15-year-old girl who is Briony, Cecilia, and Leon's cousin. She comes, along with her twin brothers, to stay with the Tallises after her parents' divorce. Lola was supposed to assume the main role in Briony's play, until it was cancelled. She is also subject to rape while staying at the Tallis household. Lola appears later in the novel as a mature woman, married to Paul Marshall. She is red-headed and fair-skinned with freckles.</li> <li><b>Jackson and Pierrot Quincey</b> – Lola's younger twin brothers and Briony, Cecilia, and Leon's cousins. They come, along with their sister, to stay with the Tallises after their parents' divorce. Briony wants the twins to take a role in her play, but disputes mean the play is cancelled, upsetting them both. Pierrot appears later in the novel as an old man while his brother has died.</li> <li><b>Danny Hardman</b> – The handyman for the Tallis family. Robbie and Cecilia suspect he is responsible for Lola's rape until Briony tells them otherwise, prompting Robbie to say they owe him an apology.</li> <li><b>Paul Marshall</b> – A friend of Leon. He rapes Lola outside the Tallis household after dark; Briony, however, accuses Robbie of Lola's rape, and many years later Lola and Paul marry. Paul Marshall also owns a chocolate factory that manufactures 'Amo' bars – chocolate energy bars supplied to army troops, which earn him a considerable fortune.</li> <li><b>Corporal Nettle</b> – Nettle is one of Robbie's two companions during the Dunkirk evacuation. In the fourth and final section of the novel, an elderly Briony alludes to an "old Mr. Nettle" from whom she received a "dozen long letters" but whether this is the same person is not made exactly clear.</li> <li><b>Corporal Mace</b> – Mace is the second of Robbie's two companions during the Dunkirk evacuation. He is last seen presumably rescuing an <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">RAF</a> man from a possible <a href="/wiki/Lynching" title="Lynching">lynching</a> by some infantrymen under the guise of wanting to do harm by drowning him in the "bloody sea".</li> <li><b>Betty</b> – The Tallis family's servant, described as "wretched" in personality.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References_to_other_literary_works">References to other literary works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atonement_(novel)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References to other literary works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Atonement</i> contains <a href="/wiki/Intertextuality" title="Intertextuality">intertextual references</a> to a number of other literary works, including <i><a href="/wiki/Gray%27s_Anatomy" title="Gray's Anatomy">Gray's Anatomy</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Woolf" title="Virginia Woolf">Virginia Woolf</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Waves" title="The Waves">The Waves</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hardy" title="Thomas Hardy">Thomas Hardy</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Jude_the_Obscure" title="Jude the Obscure">Jude the Obscure</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Henry_James" title="Henry James">Henry James</a>' <i><a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Bowl" title="The Golden Bowl">The Golden Bowl</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Jane_Austen" title="Jane Austen">Jane Austen</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Northanger_Abbey" title="Northanger Abbey">Northanger Abbey</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Richardson" title="Samuel Richardson">Samuel Richardson</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Clarissa;_or,_The_History_of_a_Young_Lady" title="Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady">Clarissa</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov" title="Vladimir Nabokov">Vladimir Nabokov</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Lolita" title="Lolita">Lolita</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Rosamond_Lehmann" title="Rosamond Lehmann">Rosamond Lehmann</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Dusty_Answer" title="Dusty Answer">Dusty Answer</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare" class="mw-redirect" title="Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tempest" title="The Tempest">The Tempest</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth" title="Macbeth">Macbeth</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Twelfth_Night" title="Twelfth Night">Twelfth Night</a></i>. McEwan has also said that he was directly influenced by <a href="/wiki/L.P._Hartley" class="mw-redirect" title="L.P. Hartley">L.P. Hartley</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Go-Between" title="The Go-Between">The Go-Between</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Atonement</i> references two real-life literary critics: <a href="/wiki/Cyril_Connolly" title="Cyril Connolly">Cyril Connolly</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Bowen" title="Elizabeth Bowen">Elizabeth Bowen</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atonement_(novel)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Upon release, <i>Atonement</i> was generally well-received among the British press.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Daily Telegraph</a></i> reported on reviews from several publications with a rating scale for the novel out of "Love It", "Pretty Good", "Ok", and "Rubbish": <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Telegraph" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily Telegraph">Daily Telegraph</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">Times</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">Independent</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Sunday_Telegraph" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunday Telegraph">Sunday Telegraph</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Sunday_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunday Times">Sunday Times</a></i> reviews under "Love It" and <i><a href="/wiki/Independent_On_Sunday" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent On Sunday">Independent On Sunday</a></i> review under "Pretty Good" and <i><a href="/wiki/New_Statesman" title="New Statesman">New Statesman</a></i> review under "Ok" and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Spectator" title="The Spectator">Spectator</a></i> review under "Rubbish".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> gave the novel an average rating of 7.4 out of 10 based on reviews from multiple British newspapers.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Mail" title="Daily Mail">Daily Mail</a></i> gave it a five out of ten and critiqued the second half of the book calling the first half "far superior".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Sunday_Telegraph" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunday Telegraph">Sunday Telegraph</a></i> praised the work and gave it an eight out of ten, highlighting its "blazing originality".<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The book was also very well-received amongst American press. According to <a href="/wiki/Book_Marks" class="mw-redirect" title="Book Marks">Book Marks</a>, the book received "rave" reviews based on ten critic reviews with nine being "rave" and one being "positive".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Republic" title="The New Republic">The New Republic</a></i> called it McEwan's "finest and most complex novel".<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i> praised the work calling the writing "conspicuously good", but also criticized the writing saying "this goodness turns out to be, eventually, a subject of criticism in a droll show of artistic self-reference".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On <a href="/wiki/Bookmarks_(magazine)" title="Bookmarks (magazine)">Bookmarks</a> Summer 2002 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a <span role="img" style="white-space:nowrap" title="4.5 stars"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="4.5 stars"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Star_half.svg/11px-Star_half.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Star_half.svg/17px-Star_half.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Star_half.svg/22px-Star_half.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span></span> (4.5 out of 5) based on critic reviews.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i><a href="/wiki/Literary_Review" title="Literary Review">Literary Review</a></i>, Martyn Bedford wrote: "The skill and compassion that McEwan invests in the unfolding of this tragic love story are exceptional."<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>ReviewofBooks</i> said on critics consensus, "This is the faint outline of a novel about childhood, love, and war by acclaimed British novelist Ian McEwan that has garnered high praise from all quarters. The New York Times calls <i>Atonement</i> "his most complete and compassionate work to date".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Globally, the work was received generally well with <a href="/wiki/Complete_Review" title="Complete Review">Complete Review</a> saying on the consensus "Only a few with a few reservations -- but most are very, very impressed".<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Atonement</i> was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for fiction. It was also shortlisted for the 2001 <a href="/wiki/James_Tait_Black_Memorial_Prize" title="James Tait Black Memorial Prize">James Tait Black Memorial Prize</a> and the 2001 <a href="/wiki/2001_Whitbread_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="2001 Whitbread Awards">Whitbread Novel Award</a>. It won the 2002 <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times_Book_Prize" title="Los Angeles Times Book Prize"><i>Los Angeles Times</i> Book Prize</a> for fiction, the 2002 <a href="/wiki/National_Book_Critics_Circle_Award" title="National Book Critics Circle Award">National Book Critics Circle Award</a> for Fiction, the 2002 <a href="/wiki/WH_Smith_Literary_Award" title="WH Smith Literary Award">WH Smith Literary Award</a>, the 2002 <a href="/wiki/Exclusive_Books_Boeke_Prize" title="Exclusive Books Boeke Prize">Boeke Prize</a> and the 2004 Santiago Prize for the European Novel.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In its 1000th issue, <i><a href="/wiki/Entertainment_Weekly" title="Entertainment Weekly">Entertainment Weekly</a></i> named the novel #82 on its list of the 100 best books from 1983 to 2008. Additionally, <a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)"><i>Time</i></a> named it the best fiction novel of the year and included it in its <i>All-Time 100 Greatest Novels</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer">The Observer</a></i> cites it as one of the 100 greatest novels ever written, calling it "a contemporary classic of mesmerising narrative conviction."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2019, the novel was ranked 41st on <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'s</span> list of the 100 best books of the 21st century.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2022, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Daily Telegraph</a></i> included it on its list of the "100 greatest novels of all time", this time with the motivation "McEwan put <a href="/wiki/Cunt" title="Cunt">the 'c' word</a> in the classic English country-house novel."<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publication">Publication</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atonement_(novel)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Publication"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The novel was initially named <i>An Atonement</i>. Historian <a href="/wiki/Timothy_Garton_Ash" title="Timothy Garton Ash">Tim Garton-Ash</a>, to whom McEwan often shows his book drafts, persuaded McEwan to change the title at the last minute.<sup id="cite_ref-oralhistory_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oralhistory-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It was first published by then publishing director Dan Franklin, <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Cape" title="Jonathan Cape">Jonathan Cape</a>, London, the UK in 2001. The first American edition was published by <a href="/wiki/Nan_A._Talese" title="Nan A. Talese">Nan A. Talese</a>/<a href="/wiki/Doubleday_(publisher)" title="Doubleday (publisher)">Doubleday</a> in April 2002. The first audio book is by <a href="/wiki/Recorded_Books" title="Recorded Books">Recorded Books</a>, 2002 and read by Jill Tanner.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cover">Cover</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atonement_(novel)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Cover"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first edition cover image, designed by Suzanne Dean, depicts a girl wearing a summer dress sitting on the stairs of a country house. <a href="/wiki/John_Wilson_(broadcaster)" title="John Wilson (broadcaster)">John Wilson</a> of BBC4 describes it as having "a pensive quality, almost a weariness". This picture was taken only after the girl had been photographed for hours, getting frustrated and tapping her foot in a fury.<sup id="cite_ref-oralhistory_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oralhistory-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversy">Controversy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atonement_(novel)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Controversy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In late 2006, the agent for the late romance and historical author <a href="/wiki/Lucilla_Andrews" title="Lucilla Andrews">Lucilla Andrews</a> accused McEwan of failing to give Andrews sufficient credit for material on wartime nursing in London sourced from her 1977 autobiography <i>No Time for Romance</i>. McEwan, who had faced similar accusations before (see <a href="/wiki/The_Cement_Garden#Controversy" title="The Cement Garden">The Cement Garden § Controversy</a>), professed innocence of plagiarism while acknowledging his debt to the author.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> McEwan had included Andrews among the acknowledgements in the book, and several authors defended him, including <a href="/wiki/John_Updike" title="John Updike">John Updike</a>, <a href="/wiki/Martin_Amis" title="Martin Amis">Martin Amis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Atwood" title="Margaret Atwood">Margaret Atwood</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Keneally" title="Thomas Keneally">Thomas Keneally</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zadie_Smith" title="Zadie Smith">Zadie Smith</a>, and the reclusive <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon" title="Thomas Pynchon">Thomas Pynchon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Film_adaptation">Film adaptation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atonement_(novel)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Film adaptation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Atonement_(2007_film)" title="Atonement (2007 film)"><i>Atonement</i> (film)</a></div> <p>A film adaptation, directed by <a href="/wiki/Joe_Wright" title="Joe Wright">Joe Wright</a> from a screenplay by <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Hampton" title="Christopher Hampton">Christopher Hampton</a>, was released by <a href="/wiki/Working_Title_Films" title="Working Title Films">Working Title Films</a> in September 2007 in the United Kingdom and in December 2007 in the United States. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">25 April</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Pynchon+backs+McEwan+in+%27copying%27+row&rft.date=2006-12-06&rft.aulast=Bell&rft.aufirst=Dan&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fbooks.guardian.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F0%2C%2C1965130%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAtonement+%28novel%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atonement_(novel)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Rooney, Anne. <i>Atonement: York Notes Advanced</i> (London: York Press, 2006) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1405835619" title="Special:BookSources/978-1405835619">978-1405835619</a></li> <li>Bentley, Nick. "Ian McEwan, <i>Atonement</i>". In <i>Contemporary British Fiction</i> (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008), 148–57. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7486-2420-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7486-2420-1">978-0-7486-2420-1</a>.</li> <li>Crosthwaite, Paul. "Speed, War, and Traumatic Affect: Reading Ian McEwan's <i>Atonement</i>." <i>Cultural Politics</i> 3.1 (2007): 51–70.</li> <li>D'hoker, Elke. "Confession and Atonement in Contemporary Fiction: J. M. Coetzee, John Banville, and Ian McEwan." <i>Critique</i> 48.1 (2006): 31–43.</li> <li>Finney, Brian. "Briony's Stand Against Oblivion: The Making of Fiction in Ian McEwan's <i>Atonement</i>." <i>Journal of Modern Literature</i> 27.3 (2004): 68–82.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Harold, James. "Narrative Engagement with <i>Atonement</i> and <i>The Blind Assassin</i>." <i>Philosophy and Literature</i> 29.1 (2005): 130–145.</li> <li>Hidalgo, Pilar. "Memory and Storytelling in Ian McEwan's <i>Atonement</i>." <i>Critique</i> 46.2 (2005): 82–91.</li> <li>Ingersoll, Earl G. "Intertextuality in L. P. Hartley's <i>The Go-Between</i> and Ian McEwan's <i>Atonement</i>." <i>Forum for Modern Language Studies</i> 40 (2004): 241–58.</li> <li>O'Hara, David K. "Briony's Being-For: Metafictional Narrative Ethics in Ian McEwan's <i>Atonement</i>." <i>Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction</i> 52.1 (December 2010): 72–100.</li> <li>Salisbury, Laura. "Narration and Neurology: Ian McEwan's Mother Tongue", <i>Textual Practice</i> 24.5 (2010): 883–912.</li> <li>Schemberg, Claudia."Achieving 'At-one-ment': Storytelling and the Concept of Self in Ian McEwan's <i>The Child in Time</i>, <i>Black Dogs</i>, <i>Enduring Love</i> and <i>Atonement.</i>" Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2004.</li> <li>Phelan, James. "Narrative Judgments and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative: Ian McEwan's <i>Atonement</i>." <i>A Companion to Narrative Theory.</i> Ed. James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz. 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