On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment's flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia's childhood friend. But Briony's incomplete grasp of adult motives - together with her precocious literary gifts - brings about a crime that will change all of their lives. Atonement follows that crime's repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century.
I can't wait to find out if this book lives up to its amazing hype. Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 13 January. See you then!
4 comments:
I thought that I had better get started, after last month's slack effort...but I did not realise it was an Ian McEwan novel...I am just not an Ian McEwan fan (sigh).
After On Chesil Beach I thought that I wasn't either ... but I think maybe I'm coming around to Atonement.
I didn't like it the first time I read it, but now I know the ending I'm sort of interested in the beginning. Maybe the whole book should have been written as a flashback?
It started out a bit like a game of Cluedo, didn't it? I was wondering if I should be keeping track of who was in the library, the drawing room, the garden...then I skipped to the end, and now I have to go back and read the middle. Which is what happened in the last Ian McEwan novel I read. Perhaps he writes them in the wrong order??
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