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Atonement
- Author
- Ian McEwan
- Narrator
- Harriet Walter
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 4 July 2024
- Run Time
- 13 hours 39 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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This new audio edition of Ian McEwan’s beloved modern classic is narrated by Olivier Award winner and Emmy nominee Harriet Walter, who starred as Emily Tallis in the Academy Award-winning film adaptation of Atonement. Her recent credits range from The Crown to Succession and Ted Lasso.
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia plunge naked into the fountain in the garden of their country house.
Watching her too is Robbie Turner 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. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.
'This new recording of Atonement is exquisitely read by the Succession actor Harriet Walter […] McEwan pulls off a bold narrative trick that causes the listener to question the foundations of his storytelling and the nature of fiction' The Guardian
'The best thing he has ever written' Observer
‘Atonement is a masterpiece’ The Times
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
© 2001 Ian McEwan (P)2024 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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He is this country's unrivalled literary giant...a fascinatingly strange, unique and gripping novel
Independent on Sunday
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Ian McEwan’s highly-charged story of sin and forgiveness is masterfully told. Tense, shocking and heart-breaking in equal turn.
Grazia
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Atonement is a masterpiece...it is also an elegy to a time which, however volatile, still had certainties
The Times
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A beautiful and majestic fictional panorama
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A deft and brilliant exploration of guilt, family and the rippling repercussions of a single moment in life
Red
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A superb achievement
New York Times
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A magnificent novel
Independent
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The best thing he has ever written
Observer
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McEwan's best novel so far, his masterpiece
Evening Standard
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Subtle as well as powerful, adeptly encompassing comedy as well as atrocity, Atonement is a richly intricate book... A superb achievement
Sunday Times
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Details
- Author
- Ian McEwan
- Narrator
- Harriet Walter
- Duration
- 13 hours 39 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 July 2024
- ISBN
- 9781529942392
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Historical fiction, Historical romance, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.This new audio edition of Ian McEwan’s beloved modern classic is narrated by Olivier Award winner and Emmy nominee Harriet Walter, who starred as Emily Tallis in the Academy Award-winning film adaptation of Atonement. Her recent credits range from The Crown to Succession and Ted Lasso. On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia plunge naked into the fountain in the garden of their country house.Watching her too is Robbie Turner 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. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.'This new recording of Atonement is exquisitely read by the Succession actor Harriet Walter […] McEwan pulls off a bold narrative trick that causes the listener to question the foundations of his storytelling and the nature of fiction' The Guardian'The best thing he has ever written' Observer‘Atonement is a masterpiece’ The Times**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**© 2001 Ian McEwan (P)2024 Penguin Audio
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