What resulted was a collision of publishing good fortune – and one of the greatest books of the 21st century. Along the way, McEwan changed the title at the last minute, and the publishing house embarked on one of the largest photoshoots it had undertaken to take a risk on what became its most enduring cover. "Emerging from the ruins of a disregarded sci-fi short story, Atonement was filed rapidly and in parts, the novel’s crucial final section arriving only after production had already begun. Here, in the year of its 20th anniversary and publisher Jonathan Cape's centenary, we tell the full story of the book that changed British fiction. From its origins as a sci-fi story to the elaborate creation of its iconic cover, the behind-the-scenes story is no less gripping. 'This novel had everything': An Oral History of Ian McEwan's AtonementĬritical acclaim, record sales and a film starring Keira Knightley made Atonement a publishing phenomenon. And Briony will have witnessed mysteries, seen an unspeakable word, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone…īrilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of love and war and class and childhood and England, An Atonement is a profound – and profoundly moving – exploration of shame and forgiveness, of atonement and of the possibility of absolution."A beautiful and majestic fictional panorama." ~ John Updike Visit Vintage Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not imagined at its start. By day's end, their lives will be changed – irrevocably. Watching her is Robbie Turner, son of the Tallis’s cleaning lady, whose education has been subsidized by Cecilia’s and Briony’s father, and who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge.
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Synopsis: From the Booker Prize winning author of Amsterdam, a brilliant new novel.
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