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Biographical note
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.He is this country's unrivalled literary giant...a fascinatingly strange, unique and gripping novel
Independent on Sunday
Ian McEwan’s highly-charged story of sin and forgiveness is masterfully told. Tense, shocking and heart-breaking in equal turn.
Grazia
Atonement is a masterpiece...it is also an elegy to a time which, however volatile, still had certainties
The Times
A beautiful and majestic fictional panorama
A deft and brilliant exploration of guilt, family and the rippling repercussions of a single moment in life
Red
A superb achievement
New York Times
A magnificent novel
Independent
The best thing he has ever written
Observer
McEwan's best novel so far, his masterpiece
Evening Standard
Subtle as well as powerful, adeptly encompassing comedy as well as atrocity, <i>Atonemen</i>t is a richly intricate book... A superb achievement
Sunday Times