Atonement

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 372, [1]. Black cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine; black endpapers. With a photographic dust-jacket, priced at £16.99 to front flap.

Signed by Author to title page.

McEwan's eighth novel, shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Best Novel Award in 2001 and included in TIME Magazine's list of the 100 greatest English-language novels since 1923. Winner of the 2002 National Book Critics' Circle Award. Chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the Best Books of 2002.

A young teenage girl's disastrous misunderstanding of motive coupled with her precocious imagination bring about a series of tragic events that play out through the chaos of World War II to the close of the 20th century. Basis for the 2007 Oscar-winning film, directed by Joe Wright, and starring Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Saoirse Ronan, Vanessa Redgrave, and Brenda Blethyn. "A tour de force... Every bit as affecting as it is gripping." –The New York Times